Collection Highlights
Fort Hamilton Polka Redowa
Date:
1852
Object Number:
PR.020.1.1
Medium:
Color Lithograph.
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Rev. Goodrich: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564hhh
Date:
1806
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 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 3 1/2 in. ( 8.9 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: at top: "No 60"
inscribed in ink: at bottom: "G. 1806"
inscribed in pencil: at left: "Rev Mr Goodrich"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper center in brown ink: "No 60"; at lower left: "G. 1806"; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Description:
Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from circular sheet of cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of Ridgfield [Connecticut].
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
