Glass Plate Negative of Woman Skating Figure Eights on Pond, 1890s whimsy spoon HJG and HJP

HJG and HJP

I believe it is the very earliest sets of U

While I have found later versions with a very similar design

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

whose Iguana gallery on Boston's Newbury Street focused on the work of Haitian artists

Glass Plate Negative of Woman Skating Figure Eights on Pond, 1890s whimsy spoon HJG and HJPI 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