Collection Highlights
Castle Garden, New York City
Date:
1859
Object Number:
1972.13
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Luce Center
Samuel Bettle, Jr.: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2563a
Date:
1825
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with black textile underlay, laid on a page in an album containing 6 silhouettes and 12 blank folios
Dimensions:
image height: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
Marks:
inscription in ink: below bust: "Samuel Bettle, Junr. / 17 December 1825."
inscription in pencil: lower right: ""museum" / see duplicate"
Inscriptions:
Album page inscribed at lower center below silhouette in brown ink: "Samuel Bettle Junr. / 17 December 1825."; at lower right in graphite: "'Museum' / see duplicate"
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from cream paper with black textile backing; inscription identifies sitter, mounted in album containing a total of six silhouettes.
Credit Line:
James B. Wilbur Fund, 1943
Provenance:
possibly Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
