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Thomas Latimer: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564aa
Date:
1804
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with blue paper underlay, laid on a folio in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 2 5/8 in. ( 6.7 cm )
sheet: 4 7/8 x 4 in. ( 12.4 x 10.2 cm )
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No 27"; at lower left: "T. L. 1804."; 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.