Collection Highlights
The Dead at Gettysburg
Date:
ca. 1863
Object Number:
PR.164.4.38.GettysburgDead
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Gertrude Bleecker: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564bbb
Date:
1805
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper laid on black prepared paper, with black ink, in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. ( 10.8 x 8.6 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 57"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "GB 1805"
embossed: below bust: "T. P. JONES / FECIT"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 57"; at lower left: "G. B. 1805"; embossed at lower center: "T.P. JONES / FECIT";
Description:
Bust of female subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; hair drawn in ink on margin of cut-out; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of New York.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Provenance:
possibly Peale Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
