Collection Highlights
The Child's Anti-Slavery Book
Date:
1859
Object Number:
LIB.E449.C5372
Medium:
Bound volume
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Daniel Jaudon: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564ff
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 )
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]"
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
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
