Collection Highlights
Abraham Lincoln
Date:
April, 1865
Object Number:
PR.011.10
Medium:
Albumen print, carte-de-visite photograph
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Luce Center
James P. Parker: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564jj
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 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. ( 8.9 x 7 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 37"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "JPP 1806"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 37"; at lower left: "J. P. P. 1806"
Description:
Bust of young man in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
