Collection Highlights
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
Date:
1836-37
Object Number:
1952.410
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Edward Bettle: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2563c
Date:
1823
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: 3 1/8 in. ( 7.9 cm )
Marks:
inscription in ink: below bust: "Edward Bettle. / 25 March 1823."
inscription in pencil: lower right: "stamped "Museum" / with spread / eagle [BJG]"
Inscriptions:
Album page inscribed at lower center below silhouette in brown ink: "Edward Bettle. / 25 March 1823."; at lower right in graphite: "stamped / 'museum' / with spread / eagle [BJ(?)]"
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:
possibly Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
