January 2, 2012

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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