Woman in Parlor Behind Beaded Curtain, 1909 British Cyanotype set of bowls and a bit of peeling

and a bit of peeling off/loss of adhesion on one part of the back side (I have not touched it

it feels both ancient and decidedly modern

I think I'd plant this one with a mock orange or little lemon tree

A sort of haunting specter of another era

which had been attacked by plague

Woman in Parlor Behind Beaded Curtain, 1909 British Cyanotype set of bowls and a bit of peelingI am completely taken with this antique cyanotype formally, as well as in terms of all the information that is packed into it, and for the way our elusive subject is turned away from us and forever veiled behind her beaded screen, with this curtain splitting the image into two parts in a bit of a Baroque manner. And what a chock lot of patterns and styles going on, with a fantastic degree of detail to the portrait and plate on the corner shelf,