Edward Francis Burney

The Origin of Painting

1790–1800

Dating

Date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

Dimensions

Sheet: 3 3/16 × 4 1/2 in. (8.1 × 11.4 cm)

Collection no.

33.69.19

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Edward Francis Burney. The Origin of Painting. Edward Francis Burney; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Spencer Bickerton, 1933. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.