This image is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions), and as such we offer a high-resolution image of it. See our image rights statement.

 

Object Timeline

1938

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2024

  • You found it!

Drawing, Two Studies of Daniel Huntington for "The Atlantic Cable Projectors"

This is a Drawing. It was created by Daniel Huntington and sitter: Daniel Huntington and Robert L. Stuart. It is dated 1894 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is graphite, white chalk on blue-green wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was bequest of Erskine Hewitt. It is credited Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

34.7 x 25.1 cm (13 11/16 x 9 7/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower right: Cable Projectors Verso: Inscribed in graphite, upper right: Color of head- / diffused - heightened at cheek and lower / part toward whiskers=tinges of warm / neut yellow & reddish brown at eye brows / =hair light brown-turning considerably / grey-whiskers lighter grey- / -hair at top shows the flesh through / -thin, eyes grey blue- / nose-enriched with neutral/red & broken / lips=considerable cool red / -chin broken colors-colorito / forte-hands more / delicate-palid with / veins showing; lower right: for Mr. R.L. Stuart

Cite this object as

Drawing, Two Studies of Daniel Huntington for "The Atlantic Cable Projectors"; Daniel Huntington (American, 1816–1906); Sitter: Robert L. Stuart; USA; graphite, white chalk on blue-green wove paper; 34.7 x 25.1 cm (13 11/16 x 9 7/8 in.); Bequest of Erskine Hewitt; 1938-57-1046

This image is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian. For more information, visit the Smithsonian’s Terms of Use page.

If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the following template:

<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18346515/ |title=Drawing, Two Studies of Daniel Huntington for "The Atlantic Cable Projectors" |author=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |accessdate=25 April 2024 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>