Woman Nuzzling Horse x 2, Double Exposure Vintage Velox Snapshot footed pottery cup this bird is a symbol

this bird is a symbol

This one I'd be especially glad to keep for myself

16 3/4" w  x 14 7/8" t x 3 7/8" d

3rd quarter 19th century I would guess

Signed Robert Fisher in pencil on the reverse

Woman Nuzzling Horse x 2, Double Exposure Vintage Velox Snapshot footed pottery cup this bird is a symbolI guess a product of chance a happy double exposure accident yielding two partial consecutive shots of this pretty young woman with grooming brush in hand affectionately nuzzling her horse. Formally excellent I think, with a conceptual art sort of feel to it. Perhaps it is her coat and hair and all those windows and of course the doubling, but keeps making me think of Hitchcock, while also, with horse as subject, like a nod to Muybridge's stop