Collection Highlights
Dragonfly table lamp
Date:
ca. 1900-1906
Object Number:
N84.113.1
Medium:
Glass, bronze
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Luce Center
Miss H. Tremholm: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2617b
Date:
1859
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; verso of silhouette Z.2617a
Dimensions:
image height: 9 1/4 in. ( 23.5 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. ( 27.3 x 19.4 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: lower left: "H. Tremholm"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "H. Tremholm"
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in right-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on rectangular sheet of cream paper. Another silhouette on verso.
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.
