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Date:
1788
Object Number:
1903.12
Medium:
Silk, paint
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Maria Dorsey: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564nn
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 15/16 in. ( 4.9 cm )
sheet: 3 5/8 x 3 in. ( 9.2 x 7.6 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 41"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "MR[?] 1804."
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 41"; at lower left: "M. R. 1804."
Description:
Bust of female subject in right-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.
