Silhouette

Title:

Mrs. Noyes

Object Name:

Silhouette

Object ID:

1957.044.059

Creator:

Hammond, Harry P. (1867-1955)Artist

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1885

Description:

Silhouette. Portrait of Mrs. Noyes, by Harry P. Hammond (1867-1955), 1885. Pencil on paper. Bust-length profile of a woman, facing right, wearing a collared blouse with four buttons down the front. Hair is up in a bun at the back of her neck. There are several pencil inscriptions: near the eyes of the subject "eyelash in", next to the second button from the top is says "buttons", below the buttons "right off wed morning". "Right off" has two lines over it, and is triple underlined. "Wed morning" is double underlined. Below the back of the neck "3-large / please bust" with a small sketch of a person's bust. Pencil inscription lower center: "Mrs. Noyes / Concord / 1885 / N.H." Two pencil inscriptions on reverse, both say: "Preserve these silhouette drawings", and "H. P. Hammond", but one "preserve" double underlined. Both are also written vertically, and are upside down, relative to each other. Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-18.9 W-15 inches

Provenance:

Gift of Emma Clapp Hammond (1880-1973), wife of Harry P. Hammond (1867-1955).

Credit Line:

Gift of Emma C. Hammond

Subjects:

Noyes