Collection Highlights
Settee
Date:
ca. 1800
Object Number:
INV.14952
Medium:
Maple, paint
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Alexander McWhorter, D.D. (1734-1807): Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564gg
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 )
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]"
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.
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.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
