Positive cut, full length silhouette of a seated man and his dog, carpet depicted with a light ink wash. Bronzed and black ink highlights painted on man and dog. Grain painted frame and glass are of the period.
silhouettes
Silhouette
The teenaged Master Hubard drew crowds of visitors to his exhibition of cut paper images, called Papyrotamia, when he visited America from England in 1825. A freehand genius with scissors, he could cut a full-length rendering in under a minute. Hubard was particularly proud of his animal portraits.
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Possibly Hubard, William James (Artist)
10 x 13 1/4 x 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.2600
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