Collection Highlights
Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën... Volume 5, part 1 (deel 5, stuk 1)
Date:
1724-1726
Object Number:
LIB.Y.1724.V
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Rev. Dr. Jedediah Morse: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564rrr
Date:
c. 1803-1810
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: 2 3/8 in. ( 6 cm )
sheet: 4 9/16 x 3 3/4 in. ( 11.6 x 9.5 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper left: "No 70"
embossed: below bust: "KING"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No 70"; embossed at lower right: "KING"
Description:
Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of Charlestown [Massachusetts?].
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
