# Study of Drapery, in The American Gilded Age

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

From the museum's label:

> Drapery on a figure, probably an angel.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1895
- Medium: Black crayon on cream laid paper
- Dimensions: 24.3 × 18.7 cm (9 9/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1914-38-149
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[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.

3 works in the collection.

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