Rear View of a Skeleton

Daniel Huntington, 1848

This is a drawing of a human skeleton from the back view. The drawing shows the skeletal structure with details, featuring the vertebral column in the center, with ribs extending outward. The pelvis, legs, joints,… · description from the collection

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Artist: Daniel Huntington ¹
Date: 1848 ¹
Medium: graphite and chalk on wove paper laid down to board ¹
Original: 2,625 × 4,000 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund, 1969)

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