THE HISTORY OF SILHOUETTES

PORTRAIT OF A PRIVATE IN AN ENGLISH REGIMENT

About the end of the 18th century

In the possession of the Author

The History
of Silhouettes

BY
E. NEVILL JACKSON

London:
THE CONNOISSEUR
1911

All rights reserved
Copyright by E. Nevill Jackson in the United States of America, 1911.

Amongst my reminiscences of personal belongings andthe charm of old portraiture, none has given megreater pleasure than the silhouette of bygone days.

The souvenir, sometimes cut by gifted amateurs, was exchangedamongst friends in my early days as the photograph is to-day.We had many at Wolterton, our Norfolk home, and the pictureof my grandmother, Lady Orford, and the cuttings of PrincessElizabeth are amongst my treasured possessions.

I remember Mr. Guest collected silhouettes, and had somefine examples of the work of Miers (who lived near ExeterChange), of Rosenberg, and of Field.

Mr. Guest was a very good judge of such things, having,by many years of collecting, perfected a naturally culturedsense of art. Like myself, he had learnt much from Mr. Pollard.

Lady Evelyn Cobbold shewed me three silhouettes of Mr.Cobbold, his father, and his grandfather, all perfect portraits,and very interesting.