Collection Highlights
The definitive treaty of peace and friendship, between His Britannick Majesty, the Most Christian King, and the King of Spain : concluded at Paris, the 10th day of February, 1763, to which, the King of Portugal acceded on the same day...
Date:
1763
Object Number:
LIB.Y1763.Tre
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Mary Bleecker: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564zz
Date:
1805
Medium:
Hollow-cut 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: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
sheet: 4 1/2 x 3 13/16 in. ( 11.4 x 9.7 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 55"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "M.B. 1805."
inscribed in pencil: lower center: "Mary"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 55"; at lower left: "M.B. 1805."; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Description:
Bust of female subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper with canted corners; hair drawn in ink on margin of cut-out; 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
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
