OFFERING AN ANTIQUE HOLLOW-CUT SILHOUETTE OF A
GENTLEMAN

SEE VIEWS ABOVE

HOLLOW-CUT MEANS THE NEGATIVE IMAGE IS TRACED
AND THEN CUT AWAY FROM LIGHT COLORED PAPER,
WHICH CUTTING IS THEN LAID ATOP A DARK BACKGROUND

THIS IS LAID ON BLACK FABRIC

NOT MARKED OR STAMPED AS TO MAKER

AS IS VINTAGE CONDITION

THE PAPER IS STAINED BUT I'M SURE THIS CAN BE REVERSED
 BY A PAPER CONSERVATOR

THIS IS BEING SHOWN "AS FOUND"

 THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PERIOD WOOD FRAME WITH OLD GLASS

OPENING FOR THE SILHOUETTE IS SIZE about 5" HIGH x 4 1/2" WIDE

IDENTIFIED ON THE BACK in PENCIL ON A LITTLE STICKER:
"Man
Lt. Mayborg"
(or Mayboy or ??? very hard to make out)

THIS COULD POSSIBLY DATE TO JUST AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

MANY ITINERANT ARTISTS TRAVELLED OVER THE COUNTRYSIDE DOING SILHOUETTES,
WHICH WERE QUICKLY and RELATIVELY CHEAPLY DONE

THIS MAY HAVE BEEN DONE BY WILLIAM JENNYS, AN ITINERANT
ARTIST FROM NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, WHO WAS KNOWN
FOR DOING CUT PAPER AND CLOTH BACKGROUND SILHOUETTES
LIKE THIS

HE WAS IN CONNECTICUT IN THE 1790's
TRAVELLING TO NEW YORK FROM 1792-98
AND THEN AROUND 1800 HE WENT NORTH TO CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS,
THEN VERMONT, AND FINALLY PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE


GUESS ON AGE 1790's-1800 

A WONDERFUL FIND!

IF I (or you) COULD IDENTIFY WHO THIS IS THAT WOULD VERIFY THE DATING

I'VE GIVEN UP TRYING, HAVING SPENT TWO DAYS RUNNING
VARIATIONS OF THIS NAME

I DO THINK IT CLEARLY SAYS "Lt." SOMETHING

FROM A SOUTH SHORE MASSACHUSETTS ESTATE

BID NOW!