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Brooks, Alden Finney. Child with Christmas Card, Watercolor, graphite, and gold paint on wove cardboard Watercolor, light scraping to retain whites, graphite underdrawings; gold paint [border]; Stipple rich in face; used a combination of thin washes, layered to enchance and modify color and thick opaque color [red] which has a slight gloss [perhaps coated or combined with gun arabie]; entire sheet is covered , 9 x 6 5/8 in. (22.9 x 16.8 cm). Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, l989, (Photo: The Met)
The Met
The Met

Child with Christmas Card

Alden Finney Brooks

1840–1932

The American Wing

Original Source
Maker/Artist
Brooks, Alden Finney
Formatted Medium
Watercolor, graphite, and gold paint on wove cardboard Watercolor, light scraping to retain whites, graphite underdrawings; gold paint [border]; Stipple rich in face; used a combination of thin washes, layered to enchance and modify color and thick opaque color [red] which has a slight gloss [perhaps coated or combined with gun arabie]; entire sheet is covered
Medium
watercolor, graphite, gold, paint, wove, cardboard, light, scraping, retain, whites, underdrawings, border, stipple, rich, face, used, combination, thin, washes, layered, enchance, modify, color, thick, opaque, red, which, has, slight, gloss, perhaps, coated, combined, gun, arabie, entire, sheet, covered
Dimensions
9 x 6 5/8 in. (22.9 x 16.8 cm)
Departments
The American Wing
Credit Line
Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, l989

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