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Museum Collection Highlights
Seated Man Writing, from the Economical School Series
c. 1810-14
1953.274f
Black chalk, charcoal, and gray wash on light blue paper
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Luce Center
William B. Crosby: Silhouette
Title
William B. Crosby: Silhouette
Date
1805
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: 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.4 x 9.8 cm )
Description
Bust of male subject in right-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
Object Number
Z.2564pp
Marks
inscribed in ink: upper left: "No 43"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "WBC 1805"
embossed: below bust: "T. P. JONES / FECIT"
Inscriptions
Inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No 43"; at lower left: "W. B. C. 1805"; embossed at lower center: "T.P. JONES / FECIT";
Gallery Label
The subject was a resident of New York.
Provenance
possibly Peale Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
