Silhouette
- Title:
- Levi Woodbury
- Object Name:
- Silhouette
- Object ID:
- 1965.008.01
- Creator:
- Brown, William Henry (1808-1883)
Artist ; Kellogg, Edmund Burke (1809-1872)Lithographer ; Kellogg, Elijah Chapman(1811-1881)Lithographer - Date:
- 1844
- Description:
- Lithograph portrait of Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), by William H. Brown (1808-1883), 1844. Full-length portrait of a man in profile to right and silhouetted. Sitter is bald with hair at sides and sideburns. He is wearing a coat with tails, high-collar shirt, trousers, and shoes. He is standing in a room with a white curtain hung over a circular tie-back; window to right; large door with circular knob and keyhole left; patterned carpet. Lithograph letter attached to print (see Notes). Printed inscription bottom margin left: "From life by Wm. H. Brown". Left corner: "Lith. of E.B. & E.C. Kellogg". Center margin: "LEVI WOODBURY. / Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by EB & EC Kellogg, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut". Modern black plastic frame with plexiglass.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-16.5 W-12.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Levi Woodbury (1789-1851) was the Governor of NH and Secretary of the Navy and Treasury.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- Subjects:
- Woodbury, Levi, Silhouettes
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