Silhouettes
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portraits cut from paper and mounted on a contrasting background; also, by extension, images showing no interior detail set against a contrasting background.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Angelo family papers
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 3
Scope and Contents:
The Angelo Family Papers contains letters, photographs, legal documents, and other papers related to the family of Domenico Angelo, who ran a fashionable fencing and riding academy in London from the 1750s to the 1780s. The materials were collected by a descendant, John Cecil Cortlandt Angelo, who had arranged them in a small annotated notebook along with letters he received from two of his Van Cortlandt cousins in America, and others interested in his Angelo ancestors. Among the...
Dates:
1762-1939, bulk 1762-1834
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library
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Angelo family papers
Framed images, 19th century
Item — Oversize 15: Series 3
Call Number: MSS 8, Series III
Scope and Contents:
Includes a framed tintype photograph of a young girl in a dress carrying a basket of flowers. The image depicts Mary Joanna Sophia Carr, the eldest child of the Rev. Thomas William Carr (of Barming).The second image is a silhouette portrait, perhaps lithographed, of a middle-aged man. The subject is probably the family patriarch, the eldest Thomas William Carr.The third and final framed image is a small portrait, drawn in graphite, of Margaret Lewen Morton. A note on...
Dates:
19th century
Lavater collection
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 13
Abstract:
Collection of engravings, drawings, silhouettes, and miniature paintings, many of them annotated in the hand of Johann Caspar Lavater. The artists most heavily represented among the signed works in the collection are Daniel Chodowiecki and Johann Heinrich Lips, both major contributors to Lavater's Physiognomische Fragmente.
Dates:
1775-1816
William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : original artwork
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 26
Abstract:
The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: Original Artwork is an artificial collection comprising original artwork that came to Yale from various sources, mostly during the Speck Collection's early decades. It includes some of the Collection's best-known holdings, including an anonymous silhouette made of Goethe in 1786 as well as original sketches and engravings by Goethe. Other artists represented include Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Georg Melchior Kraus, Johann Heinrich Lips, and Moritz...
Dates:
1785-1916
Yale Collection of American Literature portrait file
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1345
Abstract:
Portraits primarily depicting prominent nineteenth and twentieth century American writers, artists, and photographers, as well as scientists, educators, social reformers, and statesmen. Included are images of Joel Barlow, William Cullen Bryant, Hart Crane, James Dwight Dana, T. S. Eliot, Max Ewing, Robert Frost, H. D., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Wendell Phillips, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert Penn Warren, Noah Webster, and John Greenleaf Whittier....
Dates:
1842-1980