Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Luce Center
Miss Beckwith: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2632b
Date:
1859
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; verso of silhouette Z.2632a
Dimensions:
image height: 9 3/4 in. ( 24.8 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 in. ( 27.3 x 20.3 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: lower left: "Miss Beckwith"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "Miss Beckwith"
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in right-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on rectangular sheet of cream 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.
