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Maker(s):Whitcomb, James Hosley (attributed to)
Culture:American (1806-1849)
Title:silhouette: Abigail Wells
Date Made:1836
Type:Silhouette
Materials:paper. textile: silk; pine, glass, paint
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Montague?
Measurements:overall: 4 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.; cm
Accession Number:  HD 94.007.2
Credit Line:Gift of Eunice Clapp Bostwick
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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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. Small paper hollow-cut silhouette portait bust of a woman wearing a cap, facing left, highlighted with an abstract scrolled incision to depict her shoulder and bust and lined with black silk, mounted in a black painted molded frame. This silhouette is the work of a professional cutter at work in western Mass. in 1836; could possibly be the work of James Hosley Whitcomb.

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portraits

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