Beknopt en duidelijk onderwijs in het silhouetteeren

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

By

• • Has author 

    Gerrit Pape

Publisher

• Publication

  Dordrecht: de Leeuw en Krop, [± 1798]

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    Dutch

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  The word 'silhouette' derives from the name of Etienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister who, in 1759, was forced by France's credit crisis during the Seven Years War to impose severe economic demands upon the French people, particularly the wealthy. Because of de Silhouette's austere economies, his name became eponymous with anything done or made cheaply and so with these outline portraits. Prior to the advent of photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person's appearance.

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