DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Two Studies of Prehistoric Reindeer

19th-20th century

Artists

Denman Waldo RossArtist

Description

This sketch is a tracing from an illustration in Thomas Wilson's Prehistoric Art, Washington, 1898, p. 381.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink over graphite on thin cream tracing paper, mounted to cardboard

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

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.)

Provenance

Bequest of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

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