Beautifully Composed, Poetic Old Presumed Medical Snapshot Photo of Propped Leg and Foot hand-painted wallpaper box approx 4 3/4" across with

approx 4 3/4" across with handle

with its speckles all over together with veins in the alabaster showing through making it extremely believable if not all that appetizing

I find hugely satisfying

which I believe dates from sometime between the 1920s-1940s or so

Beautifully Composed, Poetic Old Presumed Medical Snapshot Photo of Propped Leg and Foot hand-painted wallpaper box approx 4 3/4" across withThis is one I have spent a lot of time looking at and keep coming back to to look some more. I believe the snapshot was likely taken for medical purposes, documenting the condition of the subject's foot and leg, but for me it is so much about the formal qualities of the image as a whole (the tonalities, the lines of the stools, the surface of the floor, the arc of the leg, the curve of the frame in the background) which, combined with the sense of