Silhouette
- Title:
- Mary Colcord Foster
- Object Name:
- Silhouette
- Object ID:
- 1949.015.29
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Silhouette of Mary (Colcord) Foster (1766-1860), unknown artist, c. 1850. Bust-length, hollow-cut silhouette of a woman in profile to right. Black paperboard backing. Collar and front of cap partially outlined in ink. Blue ink inscription upper center: "Mary Colcord Foster." Pencil inscription on reverse of black paper: "My Grandmother / I mean to keep / this as long as I live / M. F. / Aged 11 / Grandmother Aged 82 / 1850." Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.75 W-3.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Donor is great-granddaughter of Mary Colcord Foster (1766-1860), who was the wife of Dr. Samuel Foster of Candia, NH (m. 1789). Around the time of his death in 1826, she was apparently living in Brentwood (her home town), moving to Nashua c. 1845. Mercy Foster, the granddaughter who wrote the penciled note, was the donor's mother.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Ithamar M. Beard
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