Spencerian Portrait of a Woman with Folded Hands c. 1880s huge whimsy and a fantastically colored plum

and a fantastically colored plum not yet quite right

Gorgeous all the way around and just lovely

(The form also immediately reminded me of Edward Weston's photographs of bell peppers

she visited the United States on a number of lecture tours

Spencerian Portrait of a Woman with Folded Hands c. 1880s huge whimsy and a fantastically colored plumHoly moly, Im not sure Ive ever seen a more beautiful detail that the interlocking fingers of this womans hands, framed by these gorgeous banded cuffs and calligraphic swoops and swirls all around. Perfection. I personally really love the tension between the calligraphic perfection of her dress and arms and cloak and the slight awkwardness of her face, too, which shows a bit of a wider silhouette for her hairstyle in pencil and an earlier attempt at