Daniel Draper
date: label: date made
content: 1930s
notes: label: Description
content: This plaster bust of Daniel Draper (1841-1931), the New York scientist who established a Meteorological Observatory in Central Park in 1868, was probably a study or model for the bronze bust that was installed in the Observatory in 1938. It was done by Alexander Sambugnac (1888-1965) under the aegis of the Federal Art Project. Sambugnac was a native of Zemun, a town once in Serbia but later in Yugoslavia. He moved to the United States in 1921, after having studied art in Budapest, Munich, and Paris.
label: Description
content: Ref: G. Piccoli to Alexander Sambugnac, May 23, 1938, in Alexander Sambugnac papers, Archives of American Art.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Meteorology
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333966
label: accession number
content: 304826
label: catalog number
content: 333966
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bust
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 30 1/2 in x 24 in x 14 1/2 in; 77.47 cm x 60.96 cm x 36.83 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 25 1/2 in x 14 in; 76.2 cm x 64.77 cm x 35.56 cm