Collection Highlights
A Song for the times, or John Brown
Date:
1860-1870
Object Number:
LIB.SY.B1860.104
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Luce Center
William D. Sharrey (?): Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564xx
Date:
1805
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 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 4 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. ( 12.4 x 10.5 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 53"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "W.D.S. 1805."
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 53"; at lower left: "W. D. S. 1805."; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Description:
Bust of male subject in right-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 St. Kitts, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
