ENGLISH PROFILIST

ENGLISH PROFILIST, EARLY 19TH CENTURY SILHOUETTE OF MISS ELIZABETH PIGOT OF SOUTHWELL cut paper, oval, 6.5 x 5cm, papier mâché frame with leaf hanger, on the reverse an old handwritten label "In her youth a friend to Lord Byron the Poet. A likeness taken by August [in] Edouart" and in pencil 1829 and a larger silhouette of a lady, cut paper, inscribed at later date on a label on the backboard "Silhouette of unidentified lady amongst Pigot papers/Mrs M Pigot Southwell Notts mother of Elizabeth" (2)Illustrated: (E Pigot) Boyes (M), Love Without Wings a Biography of Elizabeth Pigot, Derby 1988, facing p 1.