Silhouette
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Silhouette
- Object ID:
- 1966.030.54
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1825
- Description:
- Silhouette of unidentified woman, unknown artist, c.1825. Bust-length hollow-cut silhouette of a woman in profile to right. Sitter has an elongated neck, and hair up with decorative hair comb. Black velvet backing. Details of coiffure, frilled neckline, and frilled bodice added in ink. Unsigned. Black and gilded oval border reverse painted on glass with teardrop-shaped decoration. Frame backed with fragment of possible broadside with the letters "! / AGE, / MO."Oval stamped brass over wood frame. Paper label with figure "28" attached to wooden backing (now gone).
- Material:
- Paper
Ink - Dimensions:
- H-4.6 W-3.8 inches
- Credit Line:
- Mr. and Mrs. Harry K. Rogers Collection, Gift of Josephine P. Rogers
- Subjects:
- Silhouettes
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