Drapery Studyca. 1895
Female figure reclining to the right, head up and hands in a praying attitude. More about this work
About this work
Female figure reclining to the right, head up and hands in a praying attitude.
Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
How it was made
- Graphite
- Pencil. Graphite has been used for drawing since the 1500s; in 1795 Nicolas-Jacques Conté mixed it with clay, so its hardness could be graded.
Francis Augustus Lathrop
American, 1849–1909
Lathrop trained in London, where he worked with the Pre-Raphaelite circle around Ford Madox Brown and William Morris. Back in the United States he assisted John La Farge on the decoration of Trinity Church, Boston, in the late 1870s and went on to a career in mural painting and stained glass, becoming one of the decorative artists of the American Renaissance. His drapery studies show the careful preparation behind such work.
Written by Ochre Editions.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1914-38-155
- Credit
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Type
- Drawing
- Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
