View from Stage, Antique Cyanotype Photo of Theatre Interior with Stars and Stripes Everywhere old wooden t-square including several layers of underthings

including several layers of underthings and black knit legs clad in velvet booties under them

I spotted this watercolor high on the wall at an antique shop in Manchester

which feels Art Deco/Constructivist /Bauhaus

as pictured in detail photo

Some staining as evident but no notable chips or cracks and shows very nicely

View from Stage, Antique Cyanotype Photo of Theatre Interior with Stars and Stripes Everywhere old wooden t-square including several layers of underthingsQuite an unusual one, a late 19th very early 20th c. cyanotype, which I know came out of a Los Angeles estate. I've recently been looking at old photographs of empty spaces sets like a rare photobooth photo absent a person, which I really coveted and this feels akin to me; a view from the stage of an empty theatre. All about stage setting, and anticipation, and absence, too. With these elaborately draped stars and stripes banners everywhere, and