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The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, [1] [2] was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when viewed from the north.
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The silhouette differs from an outline, which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic medium, [2] but were first used to describe pieces of cut paper, which were then stuck to a backing in a contrasting colour, and often framed.
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S. John Ross was born Sebastian John Ross, in Detroit, US, 24 April 1919.Inspired by an artist that he saw at Michigan State Fair, he trained with the silhouette artist Budd-Jack, travelling around to different fairs for three years.
With the money Williams earned making silhouettes, he bought a house and married. [1] By 1823, silhouette-cutting as a profession was in decline, and Williams had to sell his house. [1] According to the Author's Note in The Poison Place, a novel about Moses Williams, he was listed in city directories as a profile cutter until 1833. [5]