Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The cut silhouette with pencil details and a pasted to a sheet with penciled scene of a rampart with sailing ships and choppy waters beyond, signed and inscribed "Augu. Edouart fecit 1842 / Boston, U.S.," the verso with hand-written note identifying the sitter as "James (Calvin?) Campbell / Midshipman U.S. Navy," presented under glass in a period gilt frame.
Frame dimensions 13 3/4 x 10 3/8 in.
Private Collection, Charlottesville, Virginia Toning and minor foxing to sheet; minor chipping to frame; not examined out of the frame.