# White Birch Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

**Emma Beach Thayer** (born New York City 1849-died Peekskill, NY 1924)  
watercolor

Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1950.2.26A. [The museum's record](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=23962).

## 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](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/emma-beach-thayer)

born New York City 1849-died Peekskill, NY 1924

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Subjects: Leaves, Animals, Insects, Caterpillars, Foliage
- Colour: olive
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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