Old Glass Plate Negative of Presumed Earlier Portrait of Woman in Lace repetitive to vacationers

to vacationers

so romantic

and adapted them into French free verse

suggesting perhaps it was a postmortem drawing (

but purchased these from a New Hampshire-based seller who is

Old Glass Plate Negative of Presumed Earlier Portrait of Woman in Lace repetitive to vacationersI love things that confuse me or make me question what I'm seeing, and I also images of other images, representing multiple degrees of remove. I believe this glass plate negative most likely documents an earlier photograph, frame and all; I am not a costume expert, but the fine lace and bodice make me think 1840s, while the glass plate negative did not come into common use until several decades later. One can just make out the flutter of her