Collection Name: Scott Skinner Collection
Collection Number: 1961
Post Type: Kite Object or Accessory
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Artist or Author: unknown
Creation Year: 1830
Height: 6 7/16 inches
Width: 5 1/8 inches
Summay:
This European book print, probably from the early 1800s, is of a character, Dicky White. Poem on the print reads; "Dicky White, Had a new Kite, Seven feet long, almost not quite, He took it to fly, And the wind was so high, and it took him up with it very nigh." Print has been colored with red, blue, yellow, and green. Probably from England, boy is playing with an arch-top kite.
Geographic: United Kingdom
Kite Type: Flat
Significance: Art, Cultural, Historical
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