
Sleeping Child, graphite study on cream paper
A graphite drawing on cream wove paper shows the head of a young child in profile-like three-quarter view, eyes closed, with loose wavy hair spreading across the upper right. Faint construction lines suggest the shoulders and a shape below, with the sheet left mostly blank.
- Artist
- Daniel Huntington
- Date
- 1840–45
- Medium
- Graphite cream wove paper
- Source
- Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
- Size
- 2297 × 3031 px
Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1845).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum