Collection Highlights
N Amsterdam, ou N Iork in Ameriq
Date:
ca. 1700
Object Number:
PR.020.FF.13
Medium:
Colored engraving
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Jane Aitken: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564bbbb
Date:
c. 1803-1810
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 3/16 in. ( 8.1 cm )
sheet: 3 15/16 in. ( 10 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "81"
inscribed in pencil: lower left: "Jane Aitken"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "81"; at lower left in graphite: "Jane Aitken"; embossed at lower center reversed: "Museum"
Description:
Bust of female subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; hair and details of costume drawn in ink on edges of silhouette; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
