Electricity, Motif for Bank Note Design, Graphite Sketch

A loose graphite sketch on cream paper shows a seated female figure leaning forward, arms extended over a lightning-like diagonal streak and tangled clouds. Soft shading models the figure and surrounding forms. Inscribed handwriting in the lower left reads as a note naming the motif.

Artist

Walter Shirlaw

Date

ca. 1895

Medium

Graphite on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2795 × 1954 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum