Miss E. Hand: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1859
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; on verso: silhouette Z.2633b
Dimensions:
image height: 8 1/8 in. ( 20.6 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. ( 27.3 x 19.4 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on rectangular sheet of beige paper.
Object Number:
Z.2633a
Marks:
inscribed in ink: lower center: "E Hand"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "E. Hand"
Gallery Label:
This silhouette belongs to a group of forty-five silhouettes of faculty and students of Miss Haines's School that were taken on November 12, 1859.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1859
eMuseum Object ID:
42894
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Rev. Goodrich: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1806
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper laid on black prepared paper, in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 2 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 3 1/2 in. ( 8.9 cm )
Description:
Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from circular sheet of cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Object Number:
Z.2564hhh
Marks:
inscribed in ink: at top: "No 60"
inscribed in ink: at bottom: "G. 1806"
inscribed in pencil: at left: "Rev Mr Goodrich"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper center in brown ink: "No 60"; at lower left: "G. 1806"; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of Ridgfield [Connecticut].
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1806
eMuseum Object ID:
42885
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Alexander McWhorter, D.D. (1734-1807): Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1805
Medium:
Beige paper cut-out, laid on black prepared paper, in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 3 5/8 in. ( 9.2 cm )
Description:
Bust of male subject cut-out from cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Object Number:
Z.2564ddd
Marks:
inscribed ink: at base of bust: "AMcW. 1805"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "A.McW. 1805"
Gallery Label:
McWhorter (1734-1807) was born in New Castle County, Delaware, the son of Scottish parents who had come to America about 1730. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1759 and in the years that followed held pastorates in Newark, New Jersey, in Boston, and in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1805
eMuseum Object ID:
42884
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Gertrude Bleecker: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1805
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper laid on black prepared paper, with black ink, in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. ( 10.8 x 8.6 cm )
Description:
Bust of female subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; hair drawn in ink on margin of cut-out; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Object Number:
Z.2564bbb
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 57"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "GB 1805"
embossed: below bust: "T. P. JONES / FECIT"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 57"; at lower left: "G. B. 1805"; embossed at lower center: "T.P. JONES / FECIT";
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of New York.
Provenance:
possibly Peale Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1805
eMuseum Object ID:
42883
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Elizabeth Briese: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
c. 1803-1810
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper laid on black prepared paper, in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 2 7/8 in. ( 7.3 cm )
sheet: 4 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.1 x 9.8 cm )
Description:
Bust of female subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Object Number:
Z.2564zzz
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "79"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "79"; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
42882
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Harriet Johnson: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
c. 1803-1810
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper laid on black prepared paper, in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 3 1/16 in. ( 7.8 cm )
sheet: 4 5/8 x 3 3/4 in. ( 11.7 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
Bust of female subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Object Number:
Z.2564xxx
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "76"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "76."; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of Princeton, New Jersey.
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
42881
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
William Bleecker (1772-1818): Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1803-1810
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper laid on black prepared paper, in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
sheet: 4 11/16 x 4 in. ( 11.9 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Object Number:
Z.2564vvv
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper left: "74"
inscribed in pencil: upper center: "Wm[VS?]"
inscribed in pencil: lower center: "WBleec. . ."
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "74"; at lower left in graphite: "WBleeker"; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of New York.
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
42880
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Benjamin B. Sherman (1811-1885)
Classification:
Date:
1885
Medium:
Pastel on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Description:
Treasurer of the society 1878-1884. Presented by his son Charles A. Sherman, May 1913
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles A Sherman, son of the sitter
Object Number:
1913.4
Marks:
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in pastel: "G. Gerhard '85"
Gallery Label:
The subject came to New York from Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1828 and became a clerk in a grocery house, eventually becoming a partner in McCoon and Sherman, later Sherman and Collins. He later became president of the Mechancis National Bank, New York, and was treasurer ot The New-York Historical Society from 1878 to 1884. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his son.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1885
eMuseum Object ID:
42878
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Old Woman in the Window: Life on the Lower East Side
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1986
Medium:
Colored wax crayon, black acrylic paint, and gesso with scratching out on paper
Credit Line:
Gift of Nedra Newby
Object Number:
2000.927
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed in scratching out at lower left: "N. Newby / 1986"; two repetitive inscriptions inscriptions in architecture repeating the following words: "An old woman looks out her window on Rivington Street. Study for Life on the Lower East Side. Drawing for the Lower East Side. New York's Jewish Lower East Side..."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1986
eMuseum Object ID:
42876
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968)
Classification:
Date:
c. 1940-45
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, and touches of charcoal on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 1/8 x 12 15/16 in. ( 46 x 32.9 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number:
1947.188
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left vertically in gray ink: "Enit Kaufman"
Gallery Label:
The subject, a native of Marion, Ohio, was ordained a Presbyterian minister; his real interest, however, was in social work and in socialist journalism. In 1918 he founded "The World Tomorrow" and during 1921-22 was associate editor of "The Nation." He was the Socialist candidate for president of the United States in every election from 1928 to 1948. His published books include "As I See It" (1932), "Human Exploitation" (1934), "A Socialist's Faith" (1951), and "The Test of Freedom" (1954).
Provenance:
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1945
eMuseum Object ID:
42861
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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