Hollow-cut silhouette of member of the Dickey family, likely Samuel

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Hollow-cut silhouette unspecified member of the Dickey family, likely Samuel Dickey. Silhouette faces proper right or the viewer's left and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored paper that has had a negative image traced and then cut away. Immediately beneath silhouette is faded embossed stamp reading [PEALE'S MUSEUM]. Paper is brittle and faded from light damage. At bottom center in pencil is [3]. There are no marks on the back.

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