Collection Highlights
Tammany Bank
Date:
ca. 1875
Object Number:
1937.1237
Medium:
Iron, paint
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Museum Collections
Miss L. Hicks: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2624b
Date:
1859
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; verso of silhouette Z.2624a
Dimensions:
image height: 9 1/2 in. ( 24.1 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 in. ( 27.3 x 20.3 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: lower left: "L Hicks"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "L. Hicks"
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on rectangular sheet of cream paper.
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.
