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Hollow cut silhouette of John Langdon (1741-1819) placed over plainweave dark silk. Set under glass and in a gilded wooden frame, this silhouette is inscribed in ink with the sitters name and a date (earlier than the silhouette was made), and stamped with the artists' mark in the lower proper left corner.
silhouettes
paper (fiber product)
silk (textile)
Silhouette
"John Langdon/New Hampshire/1793" (Black ink)
"TODD'S/PATENT" (embossed)
454.1
Todd, Isaac (Artist)
United States
Museum Purchase
2012.48.1
ca. 1804 (After 1803 Todd became one of three silhouette cutters to use "Patent" in his mark, after his patented version of the physiognotrace.)
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