Collection Highlights
Freedom to the Slaves
Date:
ca. 1865
Object Number:
PR.052.58
Medium:
Lithograph
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Luce Center
E. Townsend: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2563d
Date:
1825
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with black textile underlay, laid on a page in an album containing 6 silhouettes and 12 blank folios
Dimensions:
image height: 2 15/16 in. ( 7.5 cm )
Marks:
inscription in ink: below bust: "E. Townsend. / May 1825."
inscription in pencil: lower right: "Stamped - / "Museum""
Inscriptions:
Album page inscribed at lower center below silhouette in brown ink: "E. Townsend. / May 1825."; embossed at lower center: "MUSEUM"; at lower right in graphite: "Stamped / 'Museum'"
Description:
Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from cream paper with black textile backing; mounted in album containing a total of six silhouettes.
Credit Line:
James B. Wilbur Fund, 1943
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
