Collection Highlights
Our Indian Policy
Date:
1875
Object Number:
PR.029.1
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Ebenezer Rockwood: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564fff
Date:
1805
Medium:
Beige paper cut-out, 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: 4 in. ( 10.2 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: at base of bust: "E R 1805."
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "E. R. 1805."
Description:
Bust of male subject cut-out from cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
