Silhouette
- Title:
- Edith Lee Hamner
- Object Name:
- Silhouette
- Object ID:
- 1957.044.012
- Creator:
- Hammond, Harry P. (1867-1955)
Artist - Date:
- 1882
- Description:
- Silhouette. Portrait of Edith Lee Hamner, by Harry P. Hammond (1867-1955), 1882. Bust-length profile of a woman with short hair, facing right. Hair detail drawn in. Pencil inscription lower center: "Mrs Edith Lee Hamner. / Sept. 15/ 1882. / Lynchburg, Va." In the bottom right, there is a math equation, incomplete and scratched out. Bottom center, is an address, sectioned off: "au- / 307 Cabell St". Draft version on reverse with longer neck, and small sketch of a bodice. Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-20.5 W-18 inches
- Provenance:
- Gift of Emma Clapp Hammond (1880-1973), wife of Harry P. Hammond (1867-1955).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Emma C. Hammond
- Subjects:
- Hamner, Edith Lee
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