Mary Copp Silhouette
date: label: date made
content: 1824-1830
name: label: maker
content: Hubard, William James
notes: label: Description
content: Cut and pasted silhouette of Mary Copp (b. 1777) is marked on the back with "Cut with scissors By MASTER HUBARD without drawing or cutting machine.” Master Hubard was William James Hubard, a popular British artist who did silhouettes of the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria before immigrating to the United States.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006859
label: catalog number
content: 6859
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: silhouette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 21.59 cm