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This bust-length hollow cut profile, bust length of a woman shows details such as hair and bustline picked out in india ink. It is set in an octagonal eglomise mat and is one of a pair.
silhouettes
paper (fiber product)
Silhouette
Wife of W.C. Clark, Manchester (handwritten)
Clark, W. C., Mrs.
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Possibly Letton, Ralph (Artist)
7 1/2 x 6 5/8 x 1 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.3147.1
1821 (Prev. dated 1810, inscription on back of .2 reads "3/22/21")
Massachusetts (United States)
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