Collection Highlights
Portrait of two girls
Date:
Object Number:
PR.012.1.326.Box12
Medium:
Ambrotype
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Miss G. Meszellenyi: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2637a
Date:
1859
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; on verso: silhouette Z.2637b
Dimensions:
image height: 9 1/2 in. ( 24.1 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. ( 27.3 x 19.4 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: lower right: "G. Meszellenyi"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "G. Meszellenyi"
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in left-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.
