In Silhouette, Distant Sailboat, Stunning Antique Photo swiss With hand-drawn ink face on

With hand-drawn ink face on the bag

kept by a young Helen (sometimes Hellen) Pettit

when silhouettes and painted portraits were just giving way to photographic ones

and the space around him

but this is the first quite like this I've come across

In Silhouette, Distant Sailboat, Stunning Antique Photo swiss With hand-drawn ink face onIf you look closely (or at 4th photo here), you'll see there is a tiny distant sailboat, captured in sharp focus, just along the at the dead center of this beauty of an early snapshot. The perfect detail to make the gorgeous silhouetted foreground even better. Here and there, looking, longing. And with the rock formation to her right looking very much like a curtain. To my eye just a dream of an image. 4 1 8" x 3 1 16". Very good condition, antique