Collection Highlights
The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. April 14th 1865
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.052.60
Medium:
Paper
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John Seymour, Jr.: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2416
Date:
1794
Medium:
Gray wash and graphite on beige paper
Marks:
inscription: on front: "Mr John Seymour Jun'r Pittsfield / January 1794"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Mr John Seymour junr Pittsfield / January 1794"
Description:
Silhouette: Life-size (?) right-facing profile of male subject; ink wash within outline in graphite on paper with handwritten description below.
Gallery Label:
This profile portrait is one of about two dozen found among the papers of Benjamin Tappan, great-grandfather of the donor.
Credit Line:
Gift of John K. Wright, 1945
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
