Museum object · Visual Arts
Hollow-cut silhouette of Ebenezer Dickey
ca. 1825
Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
Hollow-cut silhouette of Ebenezer Dickey. Silhouette faces proper left or the viewer's right and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored paper that has had a negative image traced and then cut away. At bottom center in pencil is [1]. Paper is brittle and faded from light damage. There are no marks on the back.
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Catalog reference: 2020.21.2.2
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