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Culture:American
Title:silhouettes
Date Made:ca. 1835
Type:Silhouette
Materials:black paper, white paper, watercolor, chalk
Place Made:United States; New England; Massachusetts?
Measurements:overall: 12 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 31.115 cm x 21.59 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2009.34.3
Credit Line:Gift of Joseph Peter Spang in memory of Susan Minot Lane, Gardiner Martin Lane and Katherine Lane Weems
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Silhouettes were the most expedient and inexpensive form of portraiture available to New Englanders in the early 19th century. Profiles were so cheap, costing about ten cents apiece, that an artist's profit was dependent on making them as quickly as possible. Full length silhouettes of a man and woman, inscribed in pencil on the bottom: "Thomas Swan and his sister Sarah (Sally) Swan, brother and sister of Mr. Martin Lane" and in pencil on back: "Uncle Thomas Swan 61 / Aunt 50." The black paper cutouts are affixed to white paper ground with highlights on the black silhouettes possibly achieved through chalk. Watercolor ground of figures below. Maker unknown.

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