Vignette: Man Crouching on a Scaffolding1899
Vignette showing a workman on his knees croushing on a scaffolding, a trowel and wooden bucket beside him. More about this work
About this work
Vignette showing a workman on his knees croushing on a scaffolding, a trowel and wooden bucket beside him.
Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
What you’re looking at
VIGNETTE: MAN CROUCHING ON A SCAFFOLDING
Description from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
How it was made
- 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.
Walter Appleton Clark
American, 1876–1906
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
- 1957-58-13
- 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
