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Lot 70
Sale 5190 - Collect: Americana
Sep 21, 2023
7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$1,500 -
2,500
Price Realized
$2,016
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Lot Description
A group of four framed family silhouettes; Attributed to Thomas Pole (1753-1829), James S. Ellsworth (1802-1874), and others
The first, depicting four adults in an interior, inscribed, "Cut and Painted by Thos Pole M.D. 1825 Phila. Pa"; the second, depicting three adults and two children in an interior, signed, "James S. Ellsworth Pinxt, 1832, Connecticut"; the third, depicting three small children, an infant, and a woman; and the fourth, a child and two adults, each identified on verso, "Miss Clara Jane Helm, Mrs. Edw. Orzau (?) and Herman Chs. Henderson, Worcester, Febr. 1837," all framed.
largest: 10 1/2 in.x 14 1/2 in. (sight)Provenance:
Thomas Pole: Hanes and Ruskin Antiques, Westbrook, Connecticut, 1997
Property from a Private New Jersey Collection.