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Full length silhouette portrait cut from black paper of a man facing left with arms crossed, pencil drawn background of an ivy covered marble railing with an urn and ruins in background, mounted in a painted green wood frame with bead border and cream mat.
silhouettes
glass (material)
SILHOUETTE
Front: "Augs. Edouart, fecit 1842. / Boston. U.S." Reverse: "Hon. Geo. H. Kuhn. / Aged 47 / framed May 1901." (Signed and pencil)
Kuhn, George Horatio, 1795-1879
3666
Edouart, Auguste (Artist)
Boston, Massachusetts
15 3/4 in x 12 in x 5/8 in (HxWxD) (inches)
1982.250
1842 (May 1901 (date of frame))
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