Child with Christmas Card
Object type: Watercolor
Department: The American Wing
Culture: American
Artist: Alden Finney Brooks
Artist bio: 1840–1932
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: American
Medium: Watercolor, graphite, and gold paint on wove cardboard
Watercolor, light scraping to retain whites, graphite underdrawings; gold paint [border]; Stipple rich in face; used a combination of thin washes, layered to enchance and modify color and thick opaque color [red] which has a slight gloss [perhaps coated or combined with gun arabie]; entire sheet is covered

Dimensions: 9 x 6 5/8 in. (22.9 x 16.8 cm)
Credit line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, l989
Accession year: 1989
Tags: Girls