# Room Leading to the Chapel, Knowle, Kent

**Joseph Nash** (English, 1808–1878)  
1869  
Watercolor and gouache, with touches of brush and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper  
33.6 × 48.7 cm (13 1/4 × 19 3/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1940.914. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/39246).

## About this work

Joseph Nash painted this in 1869, aged 61. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of watercolor and gouache, with touches of brush and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper.

_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.
- **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.

### [Joseph Nash](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/joseph-nash)

English, 1808–1878

## Facts

- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Culture: England
- The artist was 61
- Real size: about 13 × 19 in (33 × 48 cm). The 16 × 20 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: ochre
- 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

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