Collection Highlights
Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati
Date:
ca. 1802
Object Number:
1972.12ab
Medium:
Silk, gold, enamel
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Rev. Dr. Strong: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564iiii
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 7/8 in. ( 7.3 cm )
sheet: 4 11/16 x 4 1/16 in. ( 11.9 x 10.3 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "91"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "Dr. Strong Norwich"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "91."; at lower center: "Dr. Strong, Norwich"; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Description:
Bust of male subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of Norwich [Connecticut?].
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
