Anatomical Sketches of Human and Animal Heads
date: label: Date
content: 1877–80
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure sketches showing seventeen views of human and animal heads and skulls, with one representation of the male body viewed frontally at lower right. At upper right, a human skull is shown and left profile and assiduously labeled. At upper center, a human skill is shown frontally, while at upper right, another skull is shown in left profile without a jaw. At center and lower left, five human heads are shown in left profile, while at center, two heads of gorillas are also shown in left profile, one of which is seemingly laughing. At center right, a tiger head and skill are both included in left profile with an isolated jawbone beside them. At lower right, two representations of a chimpanzee skull are shown from above and in left profile, above a simplified rendering of a male body viewed frontally.
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: 1917-4-1532
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 × 44.3 cm (10 13/16 × 17 7/16 in.)