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Lot 64
Sale 5190 - Collect: Americana
Sep 21, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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$800 -
1,200
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$756
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Lot Description
A group of six silhouetted portraits first half 19th century
The first pair, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania Valentine, the cut-out profiles enclosed by floral, scroll and heart cut-outs and initials, "S.B" and "L.B."; together with a group of four, two ladies and two gentleman, arranged in a single frame, identified in graphite on backboard as "Elizabeth Avery/ H...Avery/ Elizabeth Avery/ William Avery/ Montgomery, Mass, 1834."
6 4/5 in. x. 4 1/2 in. (largest, sight)Provenance
The Lancaster, Pennsylvania Valentine: Gary and Martha Ludlow, Lyndhurst, Ohio
Property from a Private New Jersey Collection.
Literature
The Magazine Antigues, advertisement, April 1984, pg 824
For a related example, see Alice Van Leer Carrick, Shades of our Ancestors:American Profiles and Profilists (1928) p.134.