Hollow-cut silhouette of John Miller Dickey
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Hollow-cut silhouette of John Miller Dickey

Unidentified · ca. 1825

wove paper
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Hollow-cut silhouette John Miller Dickey. Silhouette faces proper right or the viewer's left and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored paper that has had a negative image traced and then cut away. Immediately beneath silhouette is faded embossed stamp reading [MUSEUM]. Paper is brittle and faded from light damage. At bottom center in pencil is [6]. There are no marks on the back.

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