Museum Collections
Luce Center
Unidentified Man: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564mmmm
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: 3 3/4 in. ( 9.5 cm )
sheet: 4 7/8 x 3 5/8 in. ( 12.4 x 9.2 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "94"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "95."
Description:
Bust of male subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from irregular sheet of cream paper with canted corners; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.