Glass Plate Negative of Woman Skating Figure Eights on Pond, 1890s Maine carving is really lovely

is really lovely

I think original to the frame

fantastically expressive from branches to roots

all the better for the precisely painted little eyes

with a nice round handle

Glass Plate Negative of Woman Skating Figure Eights on Pond, 1890s Maine carving is really lovelyI love this antique glass plate negative for many reasons, including for dense wall of spindly trees in the background, and for what one imagines was this woman's pure pleasure in skating, but most of all for the figure eight traced on the surface of the ice, clearly drawn by her skates many times over. I like glass place negatives that are great objects in and of themselves, and here I think the wintery trees and traces of her skates on the ice are