# "As They Threw their Animals Back upon their Haunches," illustration for An Arabian Day and Night, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine

**Frederic Remington** (American, 1861–1909)  
n.d.  
Brush and black gray wash heightened with white gouache over graphite, on cream laminate board  
34.9 × 44.7 cm (13 3/4 × 17 5/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.1583. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/99607).

## About this work

Frederic Remington painted this (n.d.), aged 33. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of brush and black gray wash heightened with white gouache over graphite, on cream laminate board.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Opaque watercolour.** Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.
- **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.

### [Frederic Remington](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/frederic-remington)

American, 1861–1909

## Facts

- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Culture: United States
- The artist was 33
- Real size: about 13 × 17 in (34 × 44 cm). The 12 × 16 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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