1936.154.48.B: Two Studies of Prehistoric Reindeer
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1936.154.48.B
- People
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Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
- Title
- Two Studies of Prehistoric Reindeer
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th-20th century
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/174502
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink over graphite on thin cream tracing paper, mounted to cardboard
- Dimensions
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12 x 14.3 cm (4 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)
mount: 35.5 x 25.5 cm (14 x 10 1/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower edge of mount, graphite, in artist's hand: Reindeer engraving in an antler. 2/3 natural size. / Grotto of [Thuyingen?], near Constance, Switzerland
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Bequest of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875
- Accession Year
- 1936
- Object Number
- 1936.154.48.B
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This sketch is a tracing from an illustration in Thomas Wilson's Prehistoric Art, Washington, 1898, p. 381.
Verification Level
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