Silhouette
- Title:
- Samuel Pratt Ridler
- Object Name:
- Silhouette
- Object ID:
- 2016.006.02
- Place of Origin:
- Barnstead, NH
- Date:
- circa 1840
- Description:
- Silhouette of Samuel Pratt Ridler (1818-1885) of Barnstead, NH, c. 1840. Vertical hollow-cut paper bust-length profile with black fabric background, fitted in a glazed gilded gesso over wood rectangular frame. Identical hollow-cut profile on reverse, visible through second piece of glass.
- Material:
- Paper
Textile - Dimensions:
- H-3.9 W-3 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.
- People:
- Kaime, Nancy S. (1793-1875), Kaime, Samuel (1789-1875), Chamberlain, William (1790-1860), Page, John F. (1935-2012)
- Subjects:
- Silhouettes
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