# Garden View, Brooklyn

**Fidelia Bridges** (American, 1834–1923)  
ca. 1867  
Watercolor and gouache, with traces of graphite underdrawing, on tan hot-pressed wove paper  
8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.3 × 13 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021.161.1. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/853646).

## About this work

Fidelia Bridges painted this in about 1867, aged about 28. It is now at The Met in New York.

### 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.
- **Watercolour.** Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.
- **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.

### [Fidelia Bridges](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/fidelia-bridges)

American, 1834–1923; born in Salem, Massachusetts; died in Canaan, Connecticut

## Facts

- Type: Watercolor
- Culture: American
- The artist was about 28
- Real size: about 8 × 5 in (20 × 13 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Realism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/realism)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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