Collection Highlights
Slave shackles
Date:
ca. 1866
Object Number:
1921.20
Medium:
Steel
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Robert C. Cornell: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2466
Date:
1840
Medium:
Black prepared blue paper cut-out, gray wash on collaged etching, laid on card with window cut out to reveal inscription on verso
Dimensions:
cardboard: 10 1/8 x 8 in. ( 25.7 x 20.3 cm )
image height: 5 3/4 in. ( 14.6 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: on strip of paper affixed below figure: "Robt. C. Cornell / Late Alderman 5th Ward / New York 14th Jan'ry 1840."
inscribed in ink: on back of cut-out: "Robt. C. Cornell / Late Alderman 5th Ward / New Y'k 14th Jan'ry 1840."
Inscriptions:
Ettiquette laid on card inscribed at left in brown ink: 'Robt C. Cornell / Late alderman 5th. Ward"; atright: "New YOrk 14th Janry. 1840."; blue paper of silhouette verso read through window of card inscribed in brown ink: "Robt. C. Cornell / Late Alderman 5th. Ward / New Yk. 14th. Janry. 1840"
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length, seated male figure in left-facing profile, reading The New York Times; black paper cut-out figure with newspaper drawn in black and white; on verso of cream card, window cut out to reveal inscription on verso of black cut-out; mounted on rectangular piece of cardboard.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Lena Cadwalader Evans
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
