Margaret Nostrand Townsend (?): Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1840
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on paper
Dimensions:
frame: 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 x 7/8 in. ( 27 x 21.9 x 2.2 cm )
image height: 5 3/4 in. ( 14.6 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure seated in rocking chair, in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on cream paper; gilded rectangular frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of Irving S. Olds
Object Number:
Z.2531
Marks:
signature and date: at lower center: "Aug'st Edouart, fecit 1840 / 411 Broadway New York"
label: on back: "IRVING S. OLDS COLLECTION"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "augt. Edouart, fecit 1840 / 411 Broadway New York"; old backing board perhaps from original frame inscribed in brown ink: "C. Lawrence / My great-great randmother / Mrs. Thomas S. Townsend & her ^grand son / John D(rake?) Townsend"; below in graphite "(Margaret Nostrand)"
Gallery Label:
The subject is listed as follows in the "Complete List of 3,800 Silhouette Portraits of American Citizens Taken Between 1839-1849 by August Edouart . . .": "Townsend, Mrs. Marguerite, aged 78 years (New York, Oct. 1, 1840)." See Andrew Oliver, "Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844" (1977), p. 544.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
42704
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
H. A. Crosby: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1804
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: 1 3/4 in. ( 4.4 cm )
sheet: 3 3/4 x 3 1/8 in. ( 9.5 x 7.9 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.2564oo
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 42"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "H.A.C. 1804"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 42"; at lower left: "H. A. C. 1804."
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1804
eMuseum Object ID:
42679
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dr. J. S. Dorsey: 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 7/8 in. ( 7.3 cm )
sheet: 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.4 x 9.8 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.2564mm
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper left: "No 40"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "Doct. J.S.D. 1806-"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No 40"; at lower left: "Doct. J. S. D. 1806 -- "; at lower right: "Reuben Haines"embossed at lower center reversed: "Museum"
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1806
eMuseum Object ID:
42678
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Abraham Hamath: 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 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.2564yyy
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper left: "78"
inscribed in pencil: lower left: "Hamath"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "78."; at lower left in graphite: "Hamath"; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
42676
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dr. Janeway: 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 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 4 7/8 x 4 in. ( 12.4 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.2564ll
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "39"
inscribed in pencil: upper right: "Dr Janeway"
inscribed in ink: lower right: "Dr Janeway"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in black ink: "39"; at lower right: "Dr Janeway"; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
42675
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Reverend Charles Seabury (1779-1844) Sleeping
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1825-30
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 8 1/2 in. ( 12.7 x 21.6 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Andrew Oliver
Object Number:
1963.21
Inscriptions:
Inscribed vertically along top edge in graphite with facial proportion scale, annotated from top: "Top of the head; wart; eye; nose; Mouth; Chin"
Gallery Label:
The subject, the youngest son of Samuel Seabury (1729-96), the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in America, and Mary (Hicks) Seabury, was born in West Chester, New York. He was ordained a deacon by his father in 1793 and a priest in 1799. He was rector of St. James's Church in New London until 1814, and of Caroline Church in Setauket, Long Island, from 1814 until his death. The subject's second son, Charles Saltonstall Seabury, was married to the artist's sister, Ruth Hawkins Mount.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
42664
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Collection of 36 drawings and 1 watercolor
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1873-1911
Medium:
Graphite, black ink and wash, and watercolor on beige paper, tracing paper, and board
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 12 x 16 in. ( 2.5 x 30.5 x 40.6 cm )
Description:
Collection of military, architectural, and costume scenes, with historical portrait sketches and a watercolor farm scene in Russia
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Harry A. Ogden
Object Number:
INV.14719
Inscriptions:
Collection of military, architectural, and costume scenes, with historical portrait sketches and a watercolor farm scene in Russia
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1911
eMuseum Object ID:
42646
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
James P. Parker: 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 x 2 3/4 in. ( 8.9 x 7 cm )
Description:
Bust of young man 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.2564jj
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 37"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "JPP 1806"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 37"; at lower left: "J. P. P. 1806"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1806
eMuseum Object ID:
42639
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:
Hollow-cut beige paper with black paper underlay, mounted 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: 4 7/8 x 4 3/8 in. ( 12.4 x 11.1 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.2564gg
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 34"
inscribed in pencil: upper right: "4"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "1805 / Revd. Dr. McW[horter] 1805"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 34"; at lower left: "1805 / Revd. Dr. McW -- 1805 [cut]"
Gallery Label:
McWhorter 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:
42638
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Daniel Jaudon: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1803
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with blue paper underlay, laid on a folio in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 2 1/2 in. ( 6.4 cm )
sheet: 4 7/8 x 4 in. ( 12.4 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.2564ff
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper left: "No 32"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "1803 / [DJ] . . ."
inscribed in pencil: lower left: "Dec. 20, 1803" ?
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No 32"; at lower left: "1803 / D J[cut]"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1803
eMuseum Object ID:
42637
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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