Glass Plate Negative of Woman Skating Figure Eights on Pond, 1890s whimsy spoon established in 1899 and one

established in 1899 and one of the nation's most important producers of industrial machinery

with the French "souvenir" simply signifying it as a momento

It appears to be signed or marked on the bottom but I cannot make it out

did a series of drawings very late in life of floating forms composed body-less facial profiles

While I have found later versions with a very similar design

Glass Plate Negative of Woman Skating Figure Eights on Pond, 1890s whimsy spoon established in 1899 and oneI love this antique glass plate negative for many reasons, including for dense wall of spindly trees in the background, and for what one imagines was this woman's pure pleasure in skating, but most of all for the figure eight traced on the surface of the ice, clearly drawn by her skates many times over. I like glass place negatives that are great objects in and of themselves, and here I think the wintery trees and traces of her skates on the ice are