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Bust length silhouette portrait cut from black paper with gold paint details of a man facing right, set on cream paper and mounted in a painted black wood frame with gilt inner border.
silhouettes
glass (material)
SILHOUETTE
"AT THE HUBARD GALLERY. / An exact likeness, with a Frame & Glass / may invariably be had for ONE Shilling. / The curious and much admired Art of cut- / ingout Likenesses with common Scissors, / originated in this Establishment, in 1822. / MASTER HUBARD was the first youth / know to possess the extraordinary talent of / delineating Profile Likenesses with Scissors; / and his works, consisting of Military, Archi - / tectural & other subjects, are still considered / the finest specimens of the Papyrotomic Art. / In 1823, Master Hubard was presented with an expensive Silver Pallette, by the / Glasgow Philosophical Society, and by that / Society his Exhibition was first designated / the "HUBARD GALLERY," & by which name / it is now universally known in all the princi - / pal Towns in Great Britain, Ireland, the / United States, and the Canadas." (Newspaper clipping)
Howard, Jonathan, Mr.
3702
Possibly Hubard, William James (Artist)
New York
6 in x 4 7/8 in x 1/2 in (HxWxD) (inches)
1926.603
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