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Lot 65
Sale 5190 - Collect: Americana
Sep 21, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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$500 -
800
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$536
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Lot Description
A group of three silhouettes: Chief Justice and Mrs. Jeremiah Sullivan Black and a child, The child dated, "1834," the pair circa 1850s
The first two, identified as Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1810-1883) and his wife, Mary Forward Black (1819-1897), together with a third full-length watercolor and ink profile of a little boy, signed, "TD," and identified on verso as "William Dodd, when 5 years old" and dated, "Dec. 25th 1834."
5 3/4 in. x 4 3/5 in. (largest, sight)Provenance
Property from a Private New Jersey Collection.
Note
Black served as Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court and as Attorney General and Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Buchanan.