Vintage Copper Foil Portrait of Figure in Shorts Signed B.L.M antique mourning picture 1903 at bottom right

1903 at bottom right

Bottle is in good shape

which really set off the red of the boat itself

and both of which I'd never seen before--was the text reading "Little Strokes Fell Big Oaks / By diligence and patience the mouse eat in two the cable

and would probably push other people out of the way if I had to

Vintage Copper Foil Portrait of Figure in Shorts Signed B.L.M antique mourning picture 1903 at bottom rightLikely an art school exercise, though it's also got a bit of the feel of a trench art piece to me. I take it as a portrait of a woman, in pretty short shorts, who also looks a but as if she might be wearing an officer's cap though I could well be seeing things! Whatever the case, I like the manner of it a lot (better and a bit more sculptural and refined looking in person than in photos) from all those lines for the folds of cloth to all those tiny