Fierce Looking Woman with Fierce Looking Dog, 1890s Photograph japanese shunga print Really a nice example

Really a nice example

1872 at lower left--so perhaps done as something of a valentine to dear Minnie

the dry surface is wonderfully warm with age

by folding then cutting--usually described as valentines

Folky but finely done

Fierce Looking Woman with Fierce Looking Dog, 1890s Photograph japanese shunga print Really a nice exampleWhat a pair these two. She looks to me as if in complete control of her realm, and with a hundred plots in motion (I keep thinking of the matriarch on Peaky Blinders!), and this dog her loyal and fiercely protective companion, charged with keeping enemies at bay. A really terrific photo I think, down to the blur of the dogs face, lending an added ferocity to that gaze and bared teeth! With that studded collar just perfect. 5" x 4" and in excellent