Elk

Credit Line
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Gift of George D. Pratt
Accession #
12.897
Foundry
Pompeian Bronze Works N.Y.
Foundry Mark
Pompeian Bronze Works NY
Inscriptions

A.P. PROCTOR, top front edge of base; COPY RT 1899, top rear of base; Pompeian Bronze Works N.Y, engraved on rear left edge of base; 3 / 11904, painted in black underneath

Signatures

A.P. Proctor

Copyright

1899

Patina
Dark brown
Dimensions
16 1/2 x 20 x 7 1/2 in.
Casting Method
lost wax
Casting Date
ca. 1912
Cast Number
3
Metallurgy
Average copper-to-zinc ratio of 115.81. Average copper-to-tin ratio of 17. Trace amounts of silver are present on all sample spots.

The artist; [?]; George D. Pratt, New York, NY 1912; present owner by gift