Denise:

Check out plates 63-65,69 of E. Nevill Jackson's Silhouette Notes and Dictionary, Scribners, NY, 1938.  -or any other major text on the portrait profile at a major university library.  If you don't have any luck there, let me know.  I'll see if I can scan these and email them to you.

In my recent research I've come across a few pictures of these "contraptions".  Some really look like torture devices, some are very simplistic.

Why/where are you doing this exhibit?  I wonder if one of these devices still exists somewhere in the basement of the Smithsonian.

Good Luck,
Sandra Abbott



> Date:    Wed, 16 Feb 2000 08:35:15 -0500
> From:    Denise August <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: silhouettes
>
> I am setting up a vignette with mannequins of a silhouette being executed.
> I know that some artists did them free-hand, but if they used a screen to
> capture a projected shadow, what exactly did the screen look like? Could I
> use a wooden needlework stand with a hoop or scroll screen frame attached
> to it and have it sitting on the floor? OR would it be more appropriate to
> have a screen on the table between the subject and the artist? What would
> that look like? Thank you.

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