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Photo, Print, DrawingA study of dated family silhouettes (1804-1816) 15 pictures (15 cutouts of 12 silhouettes) : hollow-cut white paper silhouettes mounted on black paper ; irregular images on sheets 25 x 20.6 cm or smaller, on mount 47 x 60.5 cm. | Drawings show four bust portrait silhouettes each of George Booth, his wife Ann, and their daughter Anna between the years 1804 and ca. 1825. The fourth silhouette of George Booth…- Date: 1804-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMargueritte Olive Simon Alexandre Ami Goujeou Bonplond [i.e. Bonpland] 1 picture : hollow-cut silhouette white paper silhouette, mounted on black paper ; irregular image 8 x 5 cm, cut from sheet 12 x 10 cm. | Bust silhouette portrait shows a man, perhaps the son of Amie Jacques Alexandre Goujaud Bonpland (1773-1858), facing left. Bonpland, along with Alexandre von Humboldt, toured South America identifying and classifying plants, before returning to France in 1804.- Contributor: Peale, Charles Willson
- Date: 1804-06-12
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Photo, Print, DrawingFalls of Niagara. View of the great pitch taken from below, see Foresters, a poem 1 drawing : watercolor and ink ; sheet 20.5 x 14.5 cm. | Drawing shows great volumes of water cascading over a cliff as seen from below at Niagara Falls.- Contributor: Wilson, Alexander
- Date: 1804-01-01
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CollectionDrawings (Documentary) The Documentary Drawings category includes more than 4,000 drawings made between 1750 and 1970. Eye-witness sketches made during the U.S. Civil War are the most frequently used images. Also included are topographical views, bank note vignettes, portraits, and courtroom sketches. A large group of Russian drawings show areas of China in the 1800s. Among the well-known artists represented by numerous works are William Birch,…- Date: 1750
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