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Emily Jackson photograph collection of Édouart's American silhouette portraits

The Emily Jackson photograph collection of Édouart's American silhouette portraits contains gelatin silver prints, glass plate negatives, and ephemera related to the documentation of a set of albums compiled by the French artist Augustin Édouart and briefly owned by Jackson. Édouart affixed his reference set of portraits to album pages, which he then labeled with each sitter's name, hometown, and the place and date of the cutting. Taken together, the pages provide unique visual documentation of Americans of the 1840s, a profile in profile revealing their appearances on several levels at once: physical countenances, occupations, clothing styles, and favored pets and furniture. Included are portraits of: John Quincy Adams, August Belmont, R.W. Cushman, Samuel Augustus Foot, Charles Jared Ingersoll, Henry Inman, Eliza Jumel, Philip Kearny Jr., Alexander Macomb, William Learned Marcy, John Reed, and Martin Van Buren, among many others. In addition to Americans, there are a few portraits of foreign figures such as Mar Johannan, Bishop of Ooroomiah, Persia, and Chinese native Chin Sung. There is a wide range of furniture pieces and decorative arts elements incorporated throughout the portraits. Family pets present include dogs and a large, highly plumed bird. The juxtaposition of several figures on each page lend the sheets themselves, in a certain sense, an abstract folk art feel. A finished portrait that the sitter.

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