Sale 5819
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$400 – $800
Cut-out silhouette profiles against drawn background, inscribed, “Gen. A.S. Johnston & Eliza Griffin,” lower edge, signed and dated, “Aug Edouart fecit/ Wash D.C./ March 7, 1843,” left edge, framed, retaining old label verso for "The Collection of American Silhouette Portraits Cut By August Edouart/ Exhibited by Arthur S…"
8 in. x 6 in. (sight), 12 in. x 10 in. (frame)
Property of a Mid-Atlantic Institution.
lot 69: unexamined out of frame; background appears to be mostly clean, with only mild occasional toning; the cut silhouettes are slightly lifting off of the background in areas; the lady's flowers with some probable weak spots and/or repaired separations at stem bases; frame is period, with some minor loss to veneer and scratching commensurate with age, has been more recently backed in paper, but retains the old collection label
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