Collection Highlights
Dressing table
1795-1810
INV.14982
Mahogany, mahogany and other inlays, white pine, yellow poplar
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Alexander McWhorter, D.D. (1734-1807): Silhouette
Title
Alexander McWhorter, D.D. (1734-1807): Silhouette
Date
1805
Medium
Hollow-cut beige paper with black paper underlay, mounted 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 4 3/8 in. ( 12.4 x 11.1 cm )
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
Object Number
Z.2564gg
Marks
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 34"
inscribed in pencil: upper right: "4"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "1805 / Revd. Dr. McW[horter] 1805"
Inscriptions
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 34"; at lower left: "1805 / Revd. Dr. McW -- 1805 [cut]"
Gallery Label
McWhorter was born in New Castle County, Delaware, the son of Scottish parents who had come to America about 1730. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1759 and in the years that followed held pastorates in Newark, New Jersey, in Boston, and in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
