# Drapery Study

**Francis Augustus Lathrop** (American, 1849–1909)  
ca. 1895  
Graphite on tracing paper  
17.9 × 33.3 cm (7 1/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1914-38-155. [The museum's record](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/20199).

## About this work

Female figure reclining to the right, head up and hands in a praying attitude.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

Francis Augustus Lathrop drew this in about 1895, aged 46. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

### 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](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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._

## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- The artist was 46
- Real size: about 7 × 13 in (18 × 33 cm). The 11 × 14 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: grey
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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