Anatomical Sketches of Heads
date: label: Date
content: probably 1865–75
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure sketches showing multiple anatomical views of adult and infant heads. At upper left, two stripped-down designs of the human body in a triangular formation are shown frontally and in left profile. At upper center, an infant's head is shown in left profile, while two outstretched arms revealing their interior skeletal structure are included nearby. At upper right, the head and upper body of an infant are shown in left profile. At lower left, two adult heads are rendered in left profile, while beside them at right, a sequence of overlapping head/face outlines are included above three frontal views of heads--presumably, one male (left), one female (right), and one infant (right). The overlapping sequence of faces appears to compare the position of the chin as it recedes and protrudes in various visages.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-1534
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 × 44.2 cm (10 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)