This bust-length hollow cut profile of a man shows details such as the hair picked out in india ink. It is set in an octagonal eglomise mat and is one of a pair.
silhouettes
paper (fiber product)
Silhouette
W. C. Clark/ Manchester/ No. 17/ 3/22/21/ 14xx" (handwritten)
Clark, W. C.
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
1942.3147.2
1821 (prev. dated 1810, inscription in pencil on back reads "3/22/21")
Massachusetts (United States)
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