SILHOUETTE

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Notebook containing 56 silhouette portraits, mainly of Scots, cut from black card, with sitters including Solomon Caesar Malan, Admiral Robert Wauchope, General Sir John Slade, General Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Admiral Sir Houston Stewart.

Author: 
[Victorian Scottish silhouette portraits; Solomon Caesar Malan; Admiral Robert Wauchope; Gen. Sir John Slade;Maj. Montagu Hamilton Dowbiggin; Gen. Edward Bannerman Ramsay; Admiral Sir Houston Stewart]
Publication details: 
One (loose) dated from Geneva in 1847; the others dating from the 1850s and 1860s.
£350.00

All the silhouettes are cut from black card, and all but one are head and shoulder portraits. 52 are laid down on the rectos of the 17 leaves of a landscape 8vo (23 x 14 cm.) notebook of Whatman paper, stitched with grey wraps. They range from two to eight silhouettes to a page, and with the silhouettes ranging in height from 5.5 cm. to 10 cm. Two others are loosely inserted within makeshift mounts on the last leaf. Two more silhouettes are loosely inserted: the first (9 cm.

Victorian silhouette portraits of Shakespeare and Scott, cut from wood and laid down on a specially-designed printed background, captioned 'The profile is produced in an ordinary lathe, by the common process of turning by <ACW?>'.

Author: 
[ACW?] [Victorian wooden silhouettes of Shakespeare and Scott']
Publication details: 
Undated [Circa 1860?].
£56.00
Victorian silhouette portraits of Shakespeare and Scott

In brown wood. Both profiles looking leftwards; with that on the left ('SHAKESPEARE') 4 x 3 cm; and that on the left ('SCOTT') 5 x 3.5 cm. Each within a specially-designed printed oval frame, with Shakespeare's consisting of two red roses with thorns, and that of Scott consisting of two thistles with thorns. The caption is placed towards the bottom between the two portraits. The monogram of the individual or firm responsible appears to read 'ACW'.

Catalogue & Supplement 5,800 named and dated silhouette portraits by August Edouard 1789-1861. Silhouettist to the Royal Family of France and to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester' and 'Catalogue of 3,800 [...] American silhouette portraits' by Edouart.

Author: 
Mrs F. Nevill Jackson [Augustin Amant Constant Fidèle Edouart; SILHOUETTE PORTRAITS]
Publication details: 
ITEM ONE (5,800 portraits): 'HARDING & CURTIS, LTD., BATH.' [1914]; ITEM TWO (3,800 American portraits): 'WAKEHAM, TYP., KENSINGTON.' [circa 1925].
£120.00

ITEM ONE: 56 pages, octavo. In original orange printed wraps. Poor, on cheap paper discoloured with age, and with damage and loss to wraps. PRESENTATION COPY to 'Mr. Joseph Ceci'. ITEM TWO: 32 pages, octavo. In original green printed wraps. Poor, on even cheaper paper fraying at extremities, but without loss to text. Both items with Mrs Jackson's address on front wrap amended in her hand. Both items poorly repaired with tape. Two items,

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