Silhouette
- Title:
- Edith Ross
- Object Name:
- Silhouette
- Object ID:
- 1957.044.081
- Creator:
- Hammond, Harry P.
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1892
- Description:
- Silhouette. Portrait of Edith Ross, by Harry P. Hammond (1867-1955), 1892. Pencil on paper. Bust-length profile of a woman, facing right, wearing a collared shirt with her hair up. At center of the paper is a pair of small rough sketches, apparently practice for drawing her hair. Interesting to note the amount of biographical information on the sheet. Pen inscription: "Graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1888. / Post graduate course of one year. / Taught one year in St. Johnsbury Centre / Was in Smith College in 1891 & 1892. / In Sept 189 began to teach Mathematics in / Concord, N.H. High School." Pencil inscription below ink: "Edith Ross / of St. Johnsbury Vt. / daughter of Judge Jonathan Ross / from St. Johnsbury / best likeness / Drawn Oct. 31, 1892 / at Concord N.H." Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-18.1 W-15.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Gift of Emma Clapp Hammond (1880-1973), wife of Harry P. Hammond (1867-1955).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Emma C. Hammond
- Subjects:
- Ross, Edith
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