1820 cut and pasted bust silhouette of a woman with gold gilt highlights and dressed in elaborate bonnet. Wooden, reeded, frame is 6 1/2" H. Reverse with a later added label reads "This highly embellished silhouette of A Young Woman is labeled on the back of the work and reads, Cut with common scissors by Master Hubard (Aged 13 years) without drawing or machine." William James Hubard (1807-1862). In 1825–1826 he worked in Boston, Massachusetts, setting up an exhibition known as the "Hubard Gallery" at Julien Hall (corner Congress and Milk Streets). At the time Hubard would have been about 18 or 19 years old. A local newspaper reported "there is a great variety of pictures—likenesses, groups of animals, landscape scenery, caricatures, &c.—all cut with a simple pair of scissors, without the aid of any machinery whatever, and which a spectator might, at a hasty glance, take for painting." He received raves in the press: "He exercises his scissors with so much dexterity and skill, that an accurate profile, even of the most 'unmeaning face,' can be procured in twenty-five seconds, without the use of steam.

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