Positive cut full length silhouette with ink wash depicting a woman wearing a decorative hair comb and holding her cockatoo. Black painted wood frame.
silhouettes
ink
paper (fiber product)
Silhouette
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Hubard, William James (Maker)
9 7/8 x 13 x 1 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.2652
Probably
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