Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 fraction teaching The painting dates to the

The painting dates to the early 1900s and was done by French artist Pierre Albert Leroux (1890-1959)

it reminds me a lot of one of my favorite objects ever: an early Arikara Native American hide shield held in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City

There is a small glaze drip/imperfection on one mug that shows white

but I rather love it

I think this painting in fact captures a view Leonty returned to again and again

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 fraction teaching The painting dates to theThis is one of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them are signed and dated at bottom, others like this one initialed on back (C. A. S), so they represent the work of a few different people, most likely young women, among whom seaweed collecting and pressing was quite the thing during the Victorian era. I love the fact that making these represented not just a burgeoning