Bust of a man facing left; head and bust hollow-cut, backed with coarse, pebbly black silk; collar and vest cut out of paper; collar white, reverse, black, vest, green; hair and buttons in pencil; fram painted brown-yellow with black sponging.
silhouettes
ink
paper (fiber product)
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
silk (textile)
Unidentified Paper
Silk
Pencil
Ink
Silhouette
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Attributed to Whitcomb, James Holsey (Artist)
4.75 x 5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1349
1825-1835 (Possibly)
Maine (United States)
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