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Lot 69
Sale 5819 - Collect: Americana
Mar 20, 2024
11:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$126
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Lot Description
Auguste Edouart (1789-1861), Silhouette Profile Portrait of General Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) and Eliza Griffin (1821-1896), dated "1843"
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)