Collection Highlights
Dragonfly table lamp
Date:
ca. 1900-1906
Object Number:
N84.113.1
Medium:
Glass, bronze
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Rev. Dr. Henry Kollock: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564eeee
Date:
c. 1803-1810
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 15/16 in. ( 7.5 cm )
sheet: 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.4 x 9.8 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "87"
inscribed in pencil: lower right: "Rev Dr. . . [?]"
inscribed in ink: lower right: "Kollock"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "87"; at lower right in graphite and brown ink: "Rev Dr. H. Kollack"; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Description:
Bust of male 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.
