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Fri, Jan 25, 2019 09:00AM EST
Lot 320

Two Signed Silhouette Portraits

Estimate: $300 - $500

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(American, 19th century)

full length portrait of man facing right, signed in ink lower right "Yours Truly/ Wm H Brown/ (?) Aug 20' 74'", black ink cut out and watercolor on cream wove paper, gilt wood frame, 11-3/4 x 7-3/4 in. (sight), [toning, scattered foxing, some staining along cutout, gilt losses to frame]; full length portrait of two children facing left, signed lower right "by Weston NY 1843", Mary Pillsburg Weston, (1817-1894), black ink cut outs with watercolor accents, on cream wove paper, wood frame, 8 x 6-1/4 in. (sight), [toning, foxing, slipped in frame, abrasions to frame]

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