Silhouette

Title:

Nancy and Samuel Kaime

Object Name:

Silhouette

Object ID:

2016.006.01

Creator:

Chamberlain, William (1790-1860)

Place of Origin:

Barnstead, NH

Date:

1820-1830

Description:

Double silhouettes of Samuel Kaime (1789-1875) and his wife Nancy Simes Nutter Hoyt (1793-1875) of Barnstead, NH, attributed to William Chamberlain (1790-1860), 1820-1830. Two vertical hollow-cut paper bust-length profiles with black paper backgrounds, fitted in a black and gold painted glass liner in a gilded gesso over wood rectangular frame. Typescript history attached to back of frame, compiled by John F. Page in 1995.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-5 W-8.2 inches

Provenance:

Samuel Kaime (1789-1875) and Nancy Simes Nutter Hoyt (1793-1875) were married on January 1, 1817. The Kaime family moved to Barnstead from York, ME, in March, 1789, where they were farmers. Samuel Kaime was a selectman, justice of the peace, and represented Barnstead in the in the state legislature in 1833 and 1834. Their daughter, Nancy Hoitt Nutter (1819-1902) married Samuel Pratt Ridler (1818-1885) in 1846. The silhouettes descended in the White and Page families to John F. Page (1935-2012), collector and former director of the New Hampshire Historical Society in 1995.

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund

People:

Kaime, Nancy S. (1793-1875), Kaime, Samuel (1789-1875), Chamberlain, William (1790-1860), Page, John F. (1935-2012)

Subjects:

Silhouettes