A Village Square1875–80
A square is bordered at left and at the back by houses, at right by a garden wall. A tree is shown in the center. An oxcart and a plain wagon are near it. More about this work
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A square is bordered at left and at the back by houses, at right by a garden wall. A tree is shown in the center. An oxcart and a plain wagon are near it.
Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
How it was made
- Graphite
- Pencil. Graphite has been used for drawing since the 1500s; in 1795 Nicolas-Jacques Conté mixed it with clay, so its hardness could be graded.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 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
- 1912-16-118
- Credit
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Type
- Drawing
- Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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