Collection Highlights
The Puritan
1899
1946.253
Dark brown/ black patinated bronze
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Angelina Strange: Silhouette
Title
Angelina Strange: Silhouette
Date
1859
Medium
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; on verso: silhouette Z.2620b
Dimensions
image height: 8 1/4 in. ( 21 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 in. ( 27.3 x 20.3 cm )
Description
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on rectangular sheet of cream paper. Another silhouette on verso.
Object Number
Z.2620a
Marks
inscribed in ink: lower right: "Angelina Strange"
Inscriptions
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Angelina Stanger"
Gallery Label
This silhouette belongs to a group of forty-five silhouettes of faculty and students of Miss Haines's School that were taken on November 12, 1859.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
