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Miss Rebecca Jelliffe in Coventry. Leamington, 28th. July 1837

Drawing
28/07/1837 (made)
Artist/Maker

Silhouette portrait of a woman


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMiss Rebecca Jelliffe in Coventry. Leamington, 28th. July 1837 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Silhouette on black paper
Brief description
August Amant Constant Fidèle Edouart, Miss Rebecca Jelliffe of Coventry. Leamington, 28th July 1837
French School
Physical description
Silhouette portrait of a woman
Dimensions
  • Height: 7 5/8in (Note: Measurement from: Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1913, London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914 )
  • Width: 2 3/4in (Note: Measurement from: Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1913, London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914 )
Credit line
Presented by Mrs. F. Nevill Jackson.
Object history
The work of August Edouart, the brilliant French Silhouettist,
is well known to connoissseurs. Practising his art chiefly in
the British Isles and in America, he has left behind him the most
remarkable series of authentic pictorial documents which has ever
been bequeated to the world.
"Not only did this painstaking artist write on every portrait
the full name of his sitter, date when taken, home address and
place where taken, but he frequently pasted cuttings from con-
temporary news-sheets in his reference folios.
"Eduoart cut each portrait in duplicate from folden black
paper. Placing one of the originals in a folio, he added the name
of his sitter, date, and place where taken, just as a modern photo-
grapher keeps his negatives for reference ; he used his volumes
also for exhibition purposes. Edouart thus accumulated an enor-
mous number of interesting portraits, not only of Kings and
Princes, such as those beautiful portraits taken by him at Holy-
rood Palace in 1831, but one of the 'landed gentry and aristocracy,'
whose houses he visited, and also the humbler folk who thronged
his studio when he worked in a town or village."---- F. NEVILL
JACKSON.
The titles and descriptions given to E. 2421-2470 are those
written in autograph by Eduoart on the back of each silhouette.'
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1913, London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914
Collection
Accession number
E.2466-1913

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