David E. Wheeler: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1820-1850
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on card
Dimensions:
frame: 14 5/8 x 7 3/4 x 1/2 in. ( 37.1 x 19.7 x 1.3 cm )
image height: 10 7/8 in. ( 27.6 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length male figure in right-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on cream paper; rectangular black-painted wood frame with gold-painted trim.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Flora L. Hendley, 1939
Object Number:
Z.2560
Marks:
inscription: on back of frame: "Silhouette of Mr. David E Wheeler of / New York City, father of Everett P / Wheeler, member of N.Y.H.S. / From Miss Flora L Hendley / Aug 4 1939"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
42014
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Unidentified Boy: Silhouette with circular trompe l'oeil above books and laurel branches
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1770-1800
Medium:
Black ink and wash, watercolor, and graphite on beige paper
Dimensions:
image height: 1 9/16 in. ( 4 cm )
sheet: 6 5/8 x 4 3/4 in. ( 16.8 x 12.1 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust (nearly half-length figure) of a boy in right-facing profile; silhouette in black ink inside circular border with laurel branches, a book and manuscript at the base; rectangular cream sheet.
Object Number:
Z.2559
Marks:
printed label: affixed to back of discarded frame: "76 SILHOUETTE OF BOY ALSATIAN, END OF 18TH CENTURY / A painted silhouette on a little decorated mat typically Alsatian. / Narrow black frame."
inscribed: on back of discarded frame: "Mer 135"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
42013
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Peter Lorillard (1763-1843): Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1840
Medium:
Black prepared blue paper cut-out, laid on card with irregular window cut out to reveal inscription on verso
Dimensions:
frame: 12 1/2 x 6 1/8 x 1/2 in. ( 31.8 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm )
image height: 8 1/8 in. ( 20.6 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length male figure in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on cream paper; on verso of cream card, window cut out to reveal inscription on verso of black cut-out; rectangular black-painted wood frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Arthur A. Jones in memory of her husband
Object Number:
Z.2535
Inscriptions:
Blue paper of silhouette verso read through window of card inscribed in brown ink: "Peter Lorillard / of N. YK / Saratoga Springs 25th Augt. 1840."
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 . . .": "Lorillard, Peter (2 ports.). See Reynolds and Wolfe (Saratoga, Aug. 25, 1840; July 17, 1844)." See Andrew Oliver, "Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844" (1977), p. 531.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
42012
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General George Edward Pickett (1825-1875), Waiting for the Signal at Gettysburg
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1863
Medium:
Black and brown wash over graphite mounted on heavier paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. ( 21.6 x 13.3 cm )
mat: 18 x 14 in. ( 45.7 x 35.6 cm )
Description:
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions on Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Its futility was predicted by the charge's commander, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, and it was arguably an avoidable mistake from which the Southern war effort never fully recovered. The farthest point reached by the attack has been nicknamed the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The charge is named after Maj. Gen. George Pickett, one of three Confederate generals who led the assault under Longstreet.
After Confederate attacks on both Union flanks had failed the day and night before, Lee was determined to strike the Union center on the third day. On the night of July 2, General Meade correctly predicted at a council of war that Lee would try an attack on his lines in the center the following morning.
The infantry assault was preceded by a massive artillery bombardment that was meant to soften up the Union defense and silence its artillery, but it was largely ineffective. Approximately 12,500 men in nine infantry brigades advanced over open fields for three quarters of a mile under heavy Union artillery and rifle fire. Although some Confederates were able to breach the low stone wall that shielded many of the Union defenders, they could not maintain their hold and were repulsed with over 50% casualties, a decisive defeat that ended the three-day battle and Lee's campaign into Pennsylvania. When asked, years afterward, why his charge at Gettysburg failed, General Pickett said: "I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it."
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr.
Object Number:
1904.8
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in wash: "ARB[monogram]"; inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Waiting for The Signal / Gettysburg"; mounted inscribed in graphite: "Gen Pickett / -- by Col. Alex. R. Boteler of Gen. Lee's staff."
Provenance:
Daniel Parish, Jr., New York City
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1863
eMuseum Object ID:
42003
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Marinus Willett (1740-1830): Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1800
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with faded black textile underlay, identical sitter as Z.2440
Dimensions:
image height: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
sheet: 5 1/8 x 4 1/4 in. ( 13 x 10.8 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of beige paper with black textile backing.
Credit Line:
Gift of the children of Henry A. Stimson, through Miss Dorothy Stimson, 1942
Object Number:
Z.2455
Marks:
inscription in pencil: on front: "Hoffman"
embossed: below bust: "PEALE'S MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in graphite: "Hoffman"; embossed at lower center: "PEALES MUSEUM", below a spread eagle
Gallery Label:
The subject has been identified as Ogden Hoffman (1793-1856), a prominent district attorney in New York in the first half of the nineteenth century. The silhouette, however, is similar to others bearing the "PEALE'S MUSEUM" stamp that were produced around the turn of the century. If the subject is indeed Ogden Hoffman then it must have been made somewhat later.
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
41996
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James Duane (1733-1797): Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
c. 1790
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with faded black textile underlay
Dimensions:
image height: 2 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 4 1/2 x 4 in. ( 11.4 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of beige paper with black (now faded) textile backing.
Credit Line:
Gift of the children of Henry A. Stimson, through Miss Dorothy Stimson, 1942
Object Number:
Z.2458
Marks:
inscription in pencil: on front: "Duane"
embossed: below bust: "PEALE'S MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in graphite: "Duane"; embossed at lower center: "PEALES MUSEUM", below a spread eagle
Gallery Label:
James Duane was the first mayor of New York City after the Revolution and served in that office from 1784 to 1789.
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1790
eMuseum Object ID:
41995
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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804): Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1800
Medium:
Black ink with touches of white gouache on beige paper
Dimensions:
image height: 3 1/8 in. ( 7.9 cm )
sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. ( 10.8 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of Alexander Hamilton in left-facing profile; cut-out silhouette with ink details and shading; on rectangular sheet of cream paper .
Object Number:
Z.2459
Marks:
inscription in pencil: on back: "Alexander Hamilton"
embossed: below bust: "BACHE'S PATENT"
Inscriptions:
Embossed at lower center: "BACHE'S PATENT"; verso inscribed along lower edge in graphite: "Alexander Hamilton"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
41994
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Catherine Boudinot Atterbury: Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1790-1820
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper
Dimensions:
image height: 2 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 4 7/8 x 4 in. ( 12.4 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of female subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper.
Credit Line:
Gift of the children of Henry A. Stimson, through Miss Dorothy Stimson, 1942
Object Number:
Z.2460
Marks:
inscription in pencil: on front: "Cath'e Boudinot Atterbury"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Cathe. Boudinot Atterbury"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
41993
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Eliza Cruger: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1826-1840
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with black paper underlay and graphite
Dimensions:
image height: 2 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 4 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. ( 12.1 x 8.6 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of female subject in right-facing profile, hair and ribbon details added in graphite on recto ; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of lightweight cream paper with inscription in ink on verso
Credit Line:
Schell Fund
Object Number:
Z.2432
Marks:
inscription in ink: on front: "Eliza Cruger"
Inscriptions:
Verso inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "Eliza Cruger"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
41991
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Richard Morris (1730-1810)
Classification:
Date:
c. 1805
Medium:
Charcoal with stumping, black and white chalk with Conté crayon on pink prepared paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. ( 54.6 x 39.4 cm )
mat: 22 x 16 in. ( 55.9 x 40.6 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Lewis Gouverneur Morris, his great-great-grandson
Object Number:
1966.66
Marks:
label: on back: "This is Richard Morris the son of the Third Lewis Morris of Morrisania / and Father of the present scribe who / held the Office of Judge of Admiralty / under the Crown of Ingland[sic] in 1774 / and resigned it at the commencement / of our
Gallery Label:
The subject was the third son of Lewis Morris and Tryntje (Staats) Morris and the half-brother of Gouverneur Morris. He served as a New York State senator from 1778 to 1780, and in 1779 was appointed chief justice of the state supreme court. This profile portrait, a gift to the Society from the subject's great-great-grandson, was obtained with the aid of the physionotrace machine, probably when Saint-Mémin was active in New York (1796-98).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1798
eMuseum Object ID:
41987
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