Collection Highlights
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States
Date:
1883 - 1884
Object Number:
PR.087.1.1.35.HURPAR
Medium:
Photogravure
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Unidentified Man: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2445
Date:
c. 1800-1825
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper
Dimensions:
image height: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
sheet: 4 1/2 x 3 9/16 in. ( 11.4 x 9 cm )
Marks:
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Embossed at lower center: "MUSEUM"
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper with fragments of black paper affixed to front.
Credit Line:
Gift of the children of Henry A. Stimson, through Miss Dorothy Stimson, 1942
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
