Beknopt en duidelijk onderwijs in het silhouetteeren
additional type: Special collections
  name: Speciale collecties @nl
  type: DefinedTerm
example of work: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/30015742
publication: Dordrecht: de Leeuw en Krop; [± 1798]
publication: PublicationEvent
  location: Dordrecht
publication: PublicationEvent
  published by: de Leeuw en Krop
size: kl. 8°.
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: The word 'silhouette' derives from the name of Etienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister who, in 1759, was forced by France's credit crisis during the Seven Years War to impose severe economic demands upon the French people, particularly the wealthy. Because of de Silhouette's austere economies, his name became eponymous with anything done or made cheaply and so with these outline portraits. Prior to the advent of photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person's appearance.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/30215992
type: CreativeWork
type: ProductModel