Silhouette
date: label: date made
content: ca 1805-1835
notes: label: Description
content: Cut-out silhouette of a woman, facing right, wearing her hair up with a large comb. Black paper is pasted onto a roughly circular white piece signed at bottom "Honeywell"; signature partially cut off. Unframed.
label: Description
content: Maker is Martha Ann Honeywell (1787-after 1848); born without hands, forearms and a foot, she traveled the United States cutting silhouettes (and other artworks) with her mouth and foot.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Alexandria
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Heirs of William and Dennis Ramsay
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.220760.003A
label: accession number
content: 220760
label: catalog number
content: 220760.003A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: silhouette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper, wove (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (signature material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 4 5/8 in; .635 cm x 14.605 cm x 11.7475 cm