Statue of Mercury, pen and ink drawing

A nude male figure wearing a winged cap stands on a square pedestal, resembling a classical statue. He holds a slender staff in one hand and rests the other on his hip. The drawing uses pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash over faint graphite, laid down on blue paper.

Artist

Michael Henry Spang

Date

n.d.

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray and orange wash, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

843 × 1524 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection