Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Torsos
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 nineteen anatomical sketches of human heads and torsos. Along the upper margin, seven heads and faces are shown: two viewed from behind, one above, and four frontally. One face ostensibly represents an Inuit individual. At left, the outline of a foot and ankle is visible beside three simplified representations of heads--one of which is turned upwards. At lower left, two views--one frontal, one in left profile--of the god Jupiter are included. He is characterized by his long, wavy hair and beard and bushy, angry eyebrows. At right, three sketches of the human torso are shown above two seated figures viewed in left profile.
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: 1917-4-1533
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 gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.5 × 44.2 cm (10 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)