Silhouette
- Title:
- William Woodruff Niles
- Object Name:
- Silhouette
- Object ID:
- 1957.044.119
- Creator:
- Hammond, Harry P. (1867-1955)
Artist - Date:
- 1893
- Description:
- Silhouette. Portrait of William Woodruff Niles (1832-1914), by Harry P. Hammond (1867-1955), 1893. Pencil on paper. Bust-length profile of a man, facing right, wearing a collared shirt and sporting a moustache and beard. Pencil inscription lower center: "Wm. Woodruff Niles / Bishop of N. Hampshire / Concord, N.H. / Drawn Dec. 6, 1893. / by H.P. Hammond". Inscription on sitter's chin: "chin line / showing [indecipherable] beard". Lower left inscription: "Drawn on same evening as that of Parker / Pillsbury & Jesse A. Prescott. / The bishops shoulders being broad the / contrivance used to steady the head was / too short to reach from the wall to his head / & allow the head to be perpendicular & a / Concord directory was used instead / After the drawing was made the bishop / said that the outline of the nose and head / might be good but that I had made / his upper lip too large. In not realizing / that it was the moustache & not the lip / that was represented." Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-22.3 W-16 inches
- Provenance:
- Gift of Emma Clapp Hammond (1880-1973), wife of Harry P. Hammond (1867-1955).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Emma C. Hammond
- Subjects:
- Niles, William Woodruff
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