Joseph and John Del Vecchio
Cut-Paper-Work Picture

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cut-Paper-Work Picture
  • Paper cutwork
  • Silhouette
Datec. 1805–1810
PlaceAlbany, New York, United States
PlaceNew York, New York, United States
MediumPaper
Dimensions2 3/8 × 2 in. (6 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by the W. H. Keenan Family Endowment Fund
Object numberB.2000.11
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
DescriptionThis cut-paper picture by an unknown artist features an image of cupid whose arrow has just struck a heart suspended within a loop above a tree stump. Below is the motto “AMOR ETERNUS,” Latin for “eternal love.” The back of the frame bears the label of the New York firm of Joseph and John Del Vecchio, which specialized in frames and looking glasses.
Provenance[Whirligig Antiques, Austin, Inc.]; purchased by MFAH, 2000.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Cut across bottom: AMORE ETERNOS
Printed back label: JO [torn] JNO. VEC [torn] HIO/ LOOKING GLASS AND PRIN [torn] RE,/ WHOLESALE AND RETA [torn]/ No.136 BROADWAY/ NEW NORTH,/ Manufacturers of Looking Glasses, Picture Frames/ & c. & -- Plain, Fancy, and Ornamental Gilding execu ? [worn]/ [torn/worn] manner, on the most reasonable terms [torn]/ [torn] est notice - Spy-Glasses, Quadra...[worn]/ Compasses [torn] Thermometers, Reeves' Wa...[torn]/ N. [worn] Ladies' Needle Work, & c. framed an...[worn]

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