Lot 366
  • 366

William Henry Brown (1808-1883)

Estimate
3,000 - 6,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • William Henry Brown (1808-1883)
  • Silhouette Portrait of John Bell Tilden
  • free-cut black paper mounted on a lithographed paper ground
  • 13 in. by 11 in.
Insribed on back in graphite John Bell Tilden Phila Stephens City b. Dec 9 1762 and signed in brown ink; Taken by Wm H Brown 11th Augt 1840.

Condition

reframed. Not examined out of frame. No apparent damage to image
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