Hollow-cut silhouette portrait of Rachel Creefield
- On View
- Slavery and Freedom Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Slavery and Freedom
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Creefield, Rachel
- Date
- ca. 1825
- Medium
- wove paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Silhouette [a]): 4 5/16 × 3 7/16 in. (11 × 8.8 cm)
- H x W (Label [b]): 3 7/8 × 3 9/16 in. (9.8 × 9.1 cm)
- Description
- Hollow-cut silhouette portrait of Rachel Creefield (a) with handwritten label (b). The silhouette faces proper left or the viewer's right and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored paper that has had a negative image traced and then cut away. At bottom center in pencil is [4]. Paper is brittle and faded from light damage. There are no marks on the back. A detached handwritten label reads [Rachel Creefield / Made at Peale Museum, Phila. / She lived with the Millers in Phil. Moved to Ebenezer Dickey's place at Oxford. Was paid in 1843 50¢ a week but was not charged for board and lodging. / From Jane Miller Dickey's account book / owned by J. C. Preston.].
- Place made
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Type
- silhouettes
- portraits
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2020.21.2.1ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.