Spencerian Portrait of a Woman with Folded Hands c. 1880s huge whimsy (The form also immediately reminded

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

perhaps made from other crates

with creamy white painted tin faces inlaid over ebony wood

and a fantastically colored plum not yet quite right

and surrounded by a decorative pattern of tiny brass nails

Spencerian Portrait of a Woman with Folded Hands c. 1880s huge whimsy (The form also immediately remindedHoly 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