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Collection Highlights
Mrs. Charles Walsh (nee Blood) dressed for the Vanderbilt costume ball, March 26, 1883
Date:
March 26, 1883
Object Number:
PR.223.3.35.1
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William B. Crosby: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2564pp
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 )
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";
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.
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of New York.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Provenance:
possibly Peale Museum
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
