Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman luminous organizing supplies or odds and

organizing supplies or odds and ends

and I think  just wonderful

to be incorporated as front and back panels of a Kuna woman's blouse

really excellent condition

There is some spotting on its base

Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman luminous organizing supplies or odds andI 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