Nicholas Collin (Silhouette)
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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.