Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 hand-painted slides particularly around the shoulders and

particularly around the shoulders and near the base further animate the surface

sort of in between an old silhouette and an early studio photograph

what a box

plus a long pinkish wooden nose

A wonderful little bud vase

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 hand-painted slides particularly around the shoulders andThis 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