Hand Drummer
Unknown
Metalwork · bronze, solid cast
Hand Drummer, 900–700 BCE. Assyrian, Iraq or possibly Syria. Bronze, solid cast; overall: 7.3 x 3.8 cm (2 7/8 x 1 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1969.67
Descent of Hand Drummer
Annotations from the network
Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.
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Note how the Prussian blue sits in the wave's trough versus its crest — later Hokusai impressions stabilize this gradient, but early pulls like this one still feel like the pigment is being tested against the page.
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The cover of Debussy's 1905 Durand edition of La Mer reproduces this print at the composer's request. A cross-medium lineage worth branching into its own layer.
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Cross-impression XRF of this series (see descendant analysis) supports distinct pulls over the run — not a single uniform batch, but a recarved block drifting as it wore.