Collection Highlights
Siamese Twins
Date:
1836
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1836.55
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Melancton Smith: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564ffff
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: 2 13/16 in. ( 7.1 cm )
sheet: 4 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.1 x 9.8 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "88"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "M S"
inscribed in pencil: upper right: "Melancton / Smith"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "88"; at lower right: "M S"; 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.
