The Old Hopkinson House, Bordentown, NJca. 1880
Exterior of a house, seen through trees, from a path that leads to the porch steps. More about this work
About this work
Exterior of a house, seen through trees, from a path that leads to the porch steps.
Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
What you’re looking at
THE OLD HOPKINSON HOUSE, BORDENTOWN, NJ
Description from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
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.
- Charcoal
- Burnt willow or vine. It smudges and wipes away easily, which made it the natural tool for working out a composition.
Francis Hopkinson Smith
American, 1838–1915
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
- 1923-41-11
- 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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