Caption

A shoulder pad made of caracal armor, drawing glued across the entire surface onto paper of similar dimensions, which is glued with the upper edge onto brown cardboard; 1853; drawing; card: height 18.8 cm, width 13.4 cm; box: height 35.6 cm, width 50.4 cm., A painted depiction of a sculpted head and neck piece showing a humanlike face with a snarling mouth and visible teeth surrounded by wavy hair in pale yellow tones, set within a large helmet-like hood and a long segmented neck covering rendered in light gray with scalloped edges; the hood and each scallop are decorated with round, raised golden discs, and there is a small separate sketch of a scalloped pattern with golden discs to the side; the background is a plain off-white paper with a thin darker border visible around the image.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A33_012

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18.9Mb (889.9Kb) / 7.2in x 10.1in / 2174 x 3034 (300dpi)

Keywords

A shoulder pad caracal armor drawing glued across entire surface paper dimensions upper edge brown cardboard 1853 card height 18.8 cm width 13.4 cm box 35.6 cm width 50.4 cm painted depiction sculpted head neck piece showing humanlike face snarling mouth visible teeth surrounded wavy hair pale yellow tones set within large helmet- hood long segmented neck covering rendered light gray scalloped edges scallop decorated round raised golden discs small separate sketch scalloped pattern golden discs side background plain off-white paper thin darker border visible image.