1936.154.51: Study of a Prehistoric Cave Bear
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1936.154.51
- People
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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
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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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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