Silhouette Portrait

Silhouette Portrait
Silhouette Portrait
1997/6411

1800-1850 / John Wesley / Other / Paper / Print / Wesleyana
Paper, cardboard, wood
c.1830-50

The black card background makes this small white silhouette portrait of John Wesley particularly effective. It is in its original rosewood frame, which is inscribed at the back: "This frame is made from the Sycamore tree under which Wesley preached at Kingswood on the 26th June, 1739".