Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman papier mache tiger it feels as if the

it feels as if the warfare is taking place on the paper itself in an extremely visceral way

with 1890 handwritten in pen on reverse

Larger measures 4 11/16" across

The cover has a minor fold on the bottom right hand corner but that is the only real flaw

I believe this dates to about the late 1st/early second century A

Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman papier mache tiger it feels as if theI love the ambiguity of this image, which I believe is a CDV that was scallop cut along the bottom before being mounted to the card, c. 1865. What is interesting to me about it is how the quality of the image to begin with combined with its aging over time make it feel very close to to a cut paper silhouette, and also almost as if it were a photograph of a statue, though details like the eyelashes and locks of hair surely point the former. Ultimately