Collection Highlights
Brown Brothers, Irving Place, showing east side from Eighteenth Street to Gramercy Park South
Date:
March, 1909
Object Number:
PR.020.19.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Aaron Wright, Jr.: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2426
Date:
1794
Medium:
Gray wash and graphite on beige paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. ( 31.8 x 19.7 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on front: "Mr Aaron Wright jun'r Northampton / Jan 7 - 1794"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Mr Aaron Wright junr Northampton / Jany -- 1794"
Description:
Silhouette: Life-size (?) right-facing profile of male subject; ink wash within outline in graphite on paper with handwritten description below.
Gallery Label:
This profile portrait is one of about two dozen found among the papers of Benjamin Tappan, great-grandfather of the donor.
Credit Line:
Gift of John K. Wright, 1945
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
