Vintage hand finished silhouette picture wearing a mortarboard
Vintage hand finished silhouette picture of a graduate wearing a mortarboard in a pine frame painted black around edges with a gold hand painted circle. I've taken some photos of a recent article in Homes and Antiques magazine which you can also read here https://gb.readly.com/magazines/homes-and-antiques/2024-07-24/668e3fd54d70b82b58aa90f9
Size: 24 by 24 cm 3 1/2 depth
The square academic cap, graduate cap, cap, mortarboard (because of its similarity in appearance to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar) or Oxford cap is an item of academic dress consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upon a skull-cap, with a tassel attached to the centre.
Silhouette also is any outline or sharp shadow of an object. The word was satirically derived from the name of the parsimonious mid-18th-century French finance minister Étienne de Silhouette, whose hobby was the cutting of paper shadow portrait
