Wonderful Antique CDV Photo Portrait with Homemade Hand-drawn Mount slab pottery Executed in graphite across two

Executed in graphite across two sheets of lined paper taped together on the backside

It is sold as found in a very old

but now I know there were at least two produced

It would once have fit onto a long handle at the end

But in spending a little time looking at the work of French Abstact painters and print makers Pierre Soulages and Raoul Ubac

Wonderful Antique CDV Photo Portrait with Homemade Hand-drawn Mount slab pottery Executed in graphite across twoI purchased this from a seller in England, and know it came from a collection relating to the Arkwright family, who lived at Hampton Court Castle, Hereford from the early 1800s through 1912. (A quick google turns up a lot about them and lots of photos of that marvelous castle!) I believe it is a carte de visite albumen photo, which was given a custom mount, framing this young womanwith quite the necklace!in an ink drawn window, gazing out. Pretty