# Study for an Angel

- By: Francis Augustus Lathrop (American, 1849–1909)
- Date: 1880–95
- Medium: Brush and brown watercolor, graphite on brown paper
- Classification: Figures (representations)
- Dimensions: 24.6 × 18.3 cm (9 11/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Culture: USA
- Credit line: Given by H. A. Hammond Smith
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/20472)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/3197c86bad7c5a6ae19beb4da699e9e2.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Winged figure shown from feet, on clouds, recumbent and sleeping. The wind blows the drapery upward.