The collection of American silhoutte portraits cut by August Edouart
A 1913 New York collection published by Arthur S. Vernay, gathering American silhouette portraits cut by the French-born silhouettist August Edouart, largely for the American sitters he recorded. The picture shows a solid black cut-paper profile of a standing man in a tall cap and long coat, holding a bird on his left arm and a walking stick, with a small signature beneath; a designer might take its bold flat silhouette, strong edge contrast and figure-with-prop posing as a model for graphic simplicity.
