Collection Highlights
"In relation to Foreign Nations." Draft of Federalist #64
Date:
ca. 1788
Object Number:
MSS.JohnJayPapers.1
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Elizabeth B. Hazard: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564d
Date:
1806
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 13/16 x 4 in. ( 12.2 x 10.2 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper left: "No. 4"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "EBH: 1806 AEt [20?]"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No 4"; at lower left: "EBH: 1806 Æ t. 20"; 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.
