Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman Richard Rohac Austria The postures

The postures

14 pages (filled front and back) in total

I love everything about this painting

8” tall with a diameter of 5" at widest

I haven't turned up much about Edward Loring Horn yet

Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman Richard Rohac Austria The posturesI love the ambiguity of this image, which I believe is a CDV that was scallop cut along the bottom before being mounted to the card, c. 1865. What is interesting to me about it is how the quality of the image to begin with combined with its aging over time make it feel very close to to a cut paper silhouette, and also almost as if it were a photograph of a statue, though details like the eyelashes and locks of hair surely point the former. Ultimately