The Christ child is holding a fruit, perhaps a pomegranate, [5] in his left hand
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century , pages 81-87, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
He wears a pale yellow glove on the hand to our right, which rests on the horse,
graphite: 27D Trial Proof / JJ ’73-’74; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand
.; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 1; by later hand, lower right in graphite
Hat; lower right in graphite: Geo Bellows; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand
black ink perpendicular: FRYE & SMITH, LTD., SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand
Inscriptions crop marks bottom left and bottom right in graphite; on verso, by unknown hand
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions by unknown hand, top right in graphite: No 4
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions verso, lower left, in graphite, by later hand
at right, in plate: 6; verso, vertically at upper right, in graphite by a later hand
