Appearance and art form where only the outline of something is visible

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Plate illustrating the process of making silhouettes.

The history of silhouettes / by E. Nevill Jackson.

One hundred silhouette portraits : selected from the collection of Francis Wellesley / with a preface by Weymer Mills.

Silhouette portrait of Gordon Holmes and miscelleanous other portraits.

An old woman telling fortunes from cards for four ladies in a drawing room. Coloured etching by by Joseph Stöber after Matthäus Loder.

Thomas Cogan. Aquatint silhouette.

Sir William Blizard. Silhouette, 1801.

Nathaniel Hulme. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.

William Hawes. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.

John Coakley Lettsom. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.

Charles Bonnet. Pencil and wash, silhouette.

Johann Caspar Lavater. Engraved silhouette by J. H. Lips [?].

A man in profile wearing a top hat, possibly a member of the Jenner family. Silhouette, 1810/1840(?).

Ada Misner, secretary to Sir Henry Wellcome. Silhouette.

Edward Jenner. Aquatint silhouette by J. Miers [?], 1801.

The characters (in silhouette) from Molière's play 'Le malade imaginaire'. Process print.

John Mansell. Cut-paper silhouette, 1801.

Four faces: a European, a Mongolian, an Ethiopian, and a profile of Samuel Johnson; three frontal silhouettes; three skulls of the same races seen from above (in the order European, Ethiopian and Mongolian). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.

Witches: five silhouetted figures. Aquatint by M. Dubourg after B.A. Townshend, 1815.

Robert Liston. Printed silhouette.

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Silhouettes

Images from the collections

Images of Silhouettes

Images about Silhouettes

Works from the collections

Four faces: a European, a Mongolian, an Ethiopian, and a profile of Samuel Johnson; three frontal silhouettes; three skulls of the same races seen from above (in the order European, Ethiopian and Mongolian). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.

Witches: five silhouetted figures. Aquatint by M. Dubourg after B.A. Townshend, 1815.

John Coakley Lettsom. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.

Robert Liston. Printed silhouette.

Johann Caspar Lavater. Engraved silhouette by J. H. Lips [?].

Silhouettes

Images from the collections

Images of Silhouettes

Images about Silhouettes

Works from the collections

Four faces: a European, a Mongolian, an Ethiopian, and a profile of Samuel Johnson; three frontal silhouettes; three skulls of the same races seen from above (in the order European, Ethiopian and Mongolian). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.

Witches: five silhouetted figures. Aquatint by M. Dubourg after B.A. Townshend, 1815.

John Coakley Lettsom. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.

Robert Liston. Printed silhouette.

Johann Caspar Lavater. Engraved silhouette by J. H. Lips [?].

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