Museum Collections
Luce Center
Abigail Hazard: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564a
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 7/8 in. ( 7.3 cm )
sheet: 4 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.1 x 9.8 cm )
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 1."; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Description:
Bust of female subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.