Collection Highlights
Indenture of Peter van Dyck and Cornelia, his Wife, Documenting the Administration of Margrieta van Varick's Estate
Date:
September 4, 1719
Object Number:
MSS.VanCortlandtPapers.vanDyck
Medium:
Pen and ink on paper, wax
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Emma Mills: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2635a
Date:
1859
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; on verso: silhouette Z.2635b
Dimensions:
image height: 9 3/16 in. ( 23.3 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 11/16 in. ( 27.3 x 19.5 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: lower right: "Emma Mills"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Emma Mills"
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on rectangular sheet of beige paper.
Gallery Label:
This silhouette belongs to a group of forty-five silhouettes of faculty and students of Miss Haines's School that were taken on November 12, 1859.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
