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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.154.51
People
Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title
Study of a Prehistoric Cave Bear
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307638

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on thin tracing paper mounted to off-white cardboard
Dimensions
10.5 x 16.6 cm (4 1/8 x 6 9/16 in.)
mount: 35.5 x 25.5 cm (14 x 10 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, below image, graphite, in artist's hand: Cave Bear. engraved on an oval pebble of Schist. From Grotto of Massat, Ariege. about natural Size / Wilson. p. 378
  • inscription: upper edge of mount, graphite, in artist's hand: Representation. Examples from the Paleolithic or Earliest Stone Age

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
1936.154.51
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This is a tracing from an illustration in Thomas Wilson's Prehistoric Art, Washington, 1898, p. 378.

Verification Level

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