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This positive-cut silhouette of a young man standing with his hat in his hand is set on a lithographed background that depicts a meadow with a stream in the background. The man stands flanked by trees and a tree stump. The silhouette is set under glass in a tiger maple frame.
portraits
lithography
paper (fiber product)
tiger maple
Silhouette
Silhouette
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Possibly Brown, William Henry, 1808- (Maker)
18 1/2 x 15 x 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.1638
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