Right Hand Holding Short Rod

Horatio Greenough, 1847

This is a drawing of a hand holding a cylindrical object. The image shows a hand wrapped around a smooth, round cylinder. The shading and lines add depth and texture to the depiction of fingers, knuckles, and muscles… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Horatio Greenough ¹
Date: 1847 ¹
Medium: pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper ¹
Original: 4,903 × 3,388 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Davis Hatch Collection

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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