Collection Highlights
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Date:
1805
Object Number:
1867.306
Medium:
Oil on linen
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Dr. J. S. Dorsey: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564mm
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 )
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"
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
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
