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This double-cut (shoulder area cut separately from the head) silhouette is a bust-length profile of a man. The uncut areas of his coat, green waistcoat, stock (a type of neck tie that buckled in back), and hair are all detailed in watercolor and india ink.
silhouettes
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
Silhouette
C. Marchant" ; "Charles Marchant/ Gloucester Square/S.R." (handwritten)
Marchant, Charles
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
R., S. (Maker)
4 7/8 x 4 3/8 x 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.3249
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