Collection Highlights
Augustus Coe Gurnee dressed for the Vanderbilt costume ball, March 26, 1883
Date:
March 26, 1883
Object Number:
PR.223.1.16.1
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Dr. William Littleton Jones: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2340a
Date:
1844
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, white chalk, and white gouache, laid on yellow prepared paper with lithographic background and gray wash
Dimensions:
image: 10 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.; frame: 14 3/4 x 11 x 1 1/2 in.
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "aug.st Edouart fecit / Natchez April 24th / 1844 --"; verso inscribed at center vertically in gray ink: "Dr. William Littleton Jones / Natchéz -- Miss -- / U.S.A"
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length, left-facing male figure in black cut-out paper with fine linear detailing, affixed to cream paper with lithographed view of domestic interior with table in mid-ground at right and large window at center back; rectangular wooden frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
