Collection Highlights
The Bulls and Bears in the Market
Date:
1879
Object Number:
1971.104
Medium:
Oil on linen
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Museum Collections
Miss J. M. Oakley: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2625b
Date:
1859
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; verso of silhouette Z.2625a
Dimensions:
image height: 9 1/8 in. ( 23.2 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. ( 27.3 x 19 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in pencil: lower center: "Miss J. M. Oakley"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in graphite: "Miss J. M. Oakley"
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on rectangular sheet of cream paper. Another silhouette on verso.
Gallery Label:
This silhouette belongs to a group of forty-five silhouettes of faculty and students of Miss Haines's School that were taken on November 12, 1859.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
