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Pencil sketch of a sleeping child's head with closed eyes and wavy hair on cream paper, shoulders faintly outlined below.

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
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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)

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