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charging along on his horse
Larger measures 4 11/16" across
The cover has a minor fold on the bottom right hand corner but that is the only real flaw
(There is also a tear to one side of one hip patch where her stuffing is visible too
Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman papier mache tiger charging along on his horseI love the ambiguity of this image, which I believe is a CDV that was scallop cut along the bottom before being mounted to the card, c. 1865. What is interesting to me about it is how the quality of the image to begin with combined with its aging over time make it feel very close to to a cut paper silhouette, and also almost as if it were a photograph of a statue, though details like the eyelashes and locks of hair surely point the former. Ultimately
