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The Museum's Digital Cataloguing Technician, Megan Hansen-Knarhoi has spent the past few weeks working on cataloguing the Portraits in the Art Collection. This has involved meticulously verifying records against artworks, as well as writing descriptions. During this process an interesting and amusing discovery was made about a Silhouette in the Art Collection. Scanning the artwork 'Silhouette of man I' for details to include in the written description, a stamp mark "Taken at The Hubard Gallery" was noticed that had not previously been mentioned in the museum records.
Born in England, Master William James Hubard (1807-1862) was a child prodigy who cut "shadow" likenesses of people out of pieces of paper with scissors. As a young adult he worked at the "The Papyrotomia" or "Hubard Gallery" in New York, U.S.A. In his adult years he developed his skills, creating masterful paintings, and later sculpture, where he met his untimely death in a fateful experiment in his foundry.
To read more about 'Silhouette of man I' and The Hubard Gallery download Megan's research paper here (pdf format)
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Silhouette of man 1, Art Collection, A1676 – AC 913
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