Nicholas Collin (Silhouette)

Nicholas Collin

Artist/Maker: Unknown

Created: 1804

Origin/Purchase: Philadelphia

Materials: paper

Dimensions: 7 ×4.1 (2 3/4 × 1 5/8 in.)

Provenance: Charles Willson Peale; by gift to Thomas Jefferson; by descent to Virginia and Nicholas Trist; by descent to Charles, James, and John Eddy; by gift to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation in 1962

Accession Number: 1962-1-20

Historical Notes: For more information on Nicholas Collin see the article on Alexander von Humboldt.

Further Sources

• Collin, Nicholas. The Journal and Biography of Nicholas Collin, 1746-1831. Edited by Amandus Johnson. Philadelphia: New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania, 1936.