Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
Date:
ca. 1834
Object Number:
1858.2
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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J. P. Crosby: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564qq
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 5/8 in. ( 6.7 cm )
sheet: 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.4 x 9.8 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper left: "No 44"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "J. P. Crosby / ob[?] 1806"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No 44"; at lower left vertically: "J. P. Crosby"; at lower left: "[cut] 1806."
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.
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.
