Study of a Bowing Man (Christopher Columbus)
Study of Christopher Columbus for the painting The Return of Christopher Columbus to the Spanish Court, currently owned by the Italian Charities of America. More about this work
About this work
Study of Christopher Columbus for the painting The Return of Christopher Columbus to the Spanish Court, currently owned by the Italian Charities of America.
Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
What you’re looking at
STUDY OF A BOWING MAN (CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS)
Description from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
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.
Raimundo de Madrazo
Spanish, 1841–1920
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1927-3-337
- Credit
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Type
- Drawing
- Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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