Woman

Richardson's Ferrotype, Ambrotype, and Photograph Rooms

Probably late 19th century

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False Hellebore, Alma Lavenson, gelatin silver print
Old Mobile Facades, Roy Thigpen, photograph
This aquatint print is overall reddish in color. It represents abstract but anthropomorphic forms resembling folds of skin, eyes, and a bulbous nose. The image is centered, extending beyond the top and bottom of the plate, with vacant space colored by the plate at its left and right.
A bird with a black topside and beak, yellow underside, and white tail holds onto a vertically oriented tree branch that blooms with two dark red flowers.