# Study for "Scientific Group", in Drawings of the 19th century

Daniel Huntington drew this in 1858, aged 42. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> Man with a beard, facing left, his left hand gesturing upwards. The lower half of his coat outlined.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: 1858
- Medium: Graphite on lined white laid paper
- Dimensions: 30.8 x 20 cm (12 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1942-50-250
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Daniel Huntington](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/daniel-huntington), American, 1816–1906

Huntington studied with Samuel F. B. Morse and Henry Inman in New York and made several journeys to Italy, which shaped his early allegorical and religious pictures, such as Mercy’s Dream.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Daniel Huntington](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/daniel-huntington?hang=750) (3 works)
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