Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Unidentified Man: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564i
Date:
c. 1803-1810
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper affixed into an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 2 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 4 3/8 x 3 3/4 in. ( 11.1 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
Bust of male subject hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of lightweight cream paper; inserted in binding of 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.
