Shades and Shadow-Pictures: American Portrait Silhouettes

Example of a cut-out silhouette. Samuel Metford (United States, 1810-1890), Thomas Goddard (1765-1858). Cut-out full-figure silhouette from matte black coated white wovepaper with graphite, opaque watercolor and white paper insert(collar) mounted to a lithograph. Bequest of Maxim Karolik, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1964.1139. From Penley Knipe Yale University PDF Article below

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