Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Horn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame German modern a stand-in for the recipient

a stand-in for the recipient of the card

with the color nice and bright

I think there is so much one could write about this

Some spotting visible on the white

Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Horn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame German modern a stand-in for the recipientOccasionally I'll see a Victorian dried flower composition with a cut paper element, but I don't believe I've ever seen a sea moss picture like this before, with that black paper horn evoking a theorem painting stencil as well as nodding to a cut paper silhouette portrait, and I think locating it c. 1850s or so. I love sea moss pressings of all sorts (including for the fact that sea moss gathering represented an acceptable way for young women to get