Lot 217: Silhouette Portrait of Peleg Cranston (1754-1848) in His 89th Year, Samuel Metford (British, 1810-1890), Newport, Rhode Island, August

Silhouette Portrait of Peleg Cranston (1754-1848) in His 89th Year, Samuel Metford (British, 1810-1890), Newport, Rhode Island, August 15, 1843, signed l.r., subject and date identified in inscriptions u.r., cut and pasted full-length profile depicting the elderly gentleman with walking stick before a balustrade, with lithograph background, (toning, not examined out of frame), 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (sight), in a period mitered mahogany veneer frame.