# Child with Rosebud

**Phillip Otto Runge** (German, 1777–1810)  
n.d.  
Etching on ivory wove paper  
Image: 10 × 8 cm (3 15/16 × 3 3/16 in.); Plate: 24.5 × 25 cm (9 11/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 26 × 28 cm (10 1/4 × 11 1/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.707. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/117789).

## About this work

Phillip Otto Runge made this (n.d.), aged about 20. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of etching on ivory wove paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Etching.** The artist draws with a needle through a waxy coating on a copper plate, and acid bites the exposed lines. The plate is then inked, wiped and printed under pressure, so the line keeps the freedom of drawing.

### [Phillip Otto Runge](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/phillip-otto-runge)

German, 1777–1810

## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: Germany
- The artist was about 20
- Real size: about 4 × 3 in (10 × 8 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 18th century
- Movement: [Romanticism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/romanticism)
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5; 24 × 36 in $5; 30 × 40 in $5

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