- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Miller Dickey, Jane, 1785 - 1850
- Date
- ca. 1825
- Medium
- wove paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 2 5/8 × 1 9/16 in. (6.7 × 4 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 4 5/16 × 3 7/16 in. (11 × 8.7 cm)
- H x W (Label [b]): 4 3/4 × 3 3/8 in. (12 × 8.5 cm)
- Description
- Hollow-cut silhouette (a) of Jane Miller Dickey with handwritten label (b) reading [Jane Miller Dickey / Julia's sister.]. The label also has a gold and yellow adhesive sticker reading [CURLANDER / fine arts / BALTIMORE]. Silhouette faces proper right or the viewer's left 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 [2]. Paper is brittle and faded from light damage. There are no marks on the back.
- Place made
- Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Type
- silhouettes
- portraits
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2020.21.2.3ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




