DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Prehistoric Man, Two Horses, and a Serpent

19th-20th century

Artists

Denman Waldo RossArtist

Description

This is a tracing from an illustration in Thomas Wilson's Prehistoric Art, Washington, 1898, p. 400, fig. 59.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink over graphite on thin tracing paper mounted to off-white cardboard

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

7.8 x 15.4 cm (3 1/16 x 6 1/16 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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