John Haberle,
Imitation (detail), 1887, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New
Century Fund, Gift of the Amon G. Carter Foundation 1998.96.1
To give the fifty-cent bill and the dollar bill the appearance of real currency glued on the canvas, Haberle gave them a slight relief quality. He built up the ragged edges to catch light in the same way that pasted dollar bills would, if looked at from the side. (About a similar work, an art critic wrote that Haberle must have glued on the currency and covered it with a "thin scumble of paint.")
