White Birch Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Emma Beach Thayer painted this. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. More about this work
About this work
Emma Beach Thayer painted this. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
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.
Emma Beach Thayer
born New York City 1849-died Peekskill, NY 1924
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Smithsonian American Art 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
- 1950.2.26A
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Type
- Painting
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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