A double silhouette of Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant, made in the early 19th century, shows two young women in profile, facing each other, their images attached to a piece of silk, with thin ...

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The silhouette, an ancient form of portraiture, may be dying. Only a handful of artists have learned to cut these precision profiles – traditionally clipped from black paper and mounted on a ...