Giant and Amazon, Museo Napoli, 1875 Albumen Print made in brazil and those fantastic black dots

and those fantastic black dots that vary a bit in size from side to side and sometime come right up against the edges

8 1/2" x 7" x 4" t

handmade and handpainted with 24k gold accents

It seems to embody a great and deep sorrow

nailing a tiny squirrel in the first tree)

Giant and Amazon, Museo Napoli, 1875 Albumen Print made in brazil and those fantastic black dotsA year or so ago I bought and sold a couple of c. 1875 Grand Tour albumen photos documenting sculptures in the Museum di Napoli (now known as the National Archaeological Museum, Naples); this past week I went back to the same dealer who had put out a few more and I snapped them right up. And though the giant and amazon lushly carved of marble here are meant to be dead, they sure look powerful and full of life to me, as if just in a momentary state of