GROUP OF NINE SILHOUETTE LITHOGRAPHS FROM THE PORTRAIT GALLERY OF DISTINQUISHED AMERICAN CITIZENS AFTER W.H. BROWN,William H. Brown (1908-1883) BROWN, William Henry (1808-1883) Published by E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, Hartford, 1845. Comprised of lithographs depicting John Marshall, John Caldwell Calhoun, Felix Grundy, Samuel Lewis Southard, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, John Randolph, William Henry Harrison and William White.
Lower left: From Life by Wm. H. Brown; Center: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1844 by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, in the Clerk's Office of the District of Conneticut. Lower right: Lith. or E.B. & E.C. Kellogg.
Brown was born and died in Charleston, South Carolina, but in the interim traveled widely throughout the United States. His fame as a silhouettist gaining him access to many of the country's leading citizens. Alice Van Leer Carrick, an authority on silhouettes, notes that, rather than any existing original portraits, the present work is "the real memorial to Brown's genius, [and it is] now almost rarer than any of the silhouettes themselves." Brown prepared the biographical text himself, and the silhouettes were transferred to stone and printed by one of the best known lithographic firms of the period: Kelloggs of Hartford, CT. - Sheet size: 16 1/2" high x 11 11/16" wide; Image size: 13 1/4" high x 9 13/16" wide. Estimate $300-400
