Collection Highlights
Siamese Twins
Date:
1836
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1836.55
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H. A. Crosby: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564oo
Date:
1804
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: 1 3/4 in. ( 4.4 cm )
sheet: 3 3/4 x 3 1/8 in. ( 9.5 x 7.9 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 42"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "H.A.C. 1804"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 42"; at lower left: "H. A. C. 1804."
Description:
Bust of female subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; 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
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
