A Hero Born on a Bier, from The Master of Giants Portfolio1779
Prince Hoare painted this in 1779, aged 24. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work
About this work
A work made of brush and black ink wash, with pen and black ink and opaque white and gray watercolor, on cream laid paper.
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Prince Hoare painted this in 1779, aged 24. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
How it was made
- Watercolour
- Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.
- Pen and ink
- Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
- Laid paper
- Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.
Prince Hoare
British, 1755–1834
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 2023.3179
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Type
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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