REST, W.H. Swan, Ludlow Vermont c. 1880s Funerary Memorial Cabinet Card mushroom sculpture 5 3/4" long x 1

5 3/4" long x 1 1/16" wide x 5/16" thick

but I've not been able to get it to engage

Full of life on every jam packed page

Oil on board I believe

I don't even know how to describe it but it's incredible

REST, W.H. Swan, Ludlow Vermont c. 1880s Funerary Memorial Cabinet Card mushroom sculpture 5 3/4" long x 1Perhaps in part because I was really tired when I found it, this one completely spoke to me! One does see a fair number of cabinet cards and stereoviews of funerary flower arrangements, but I think this is really a wonderful example, and rather a transcendent one too whatever the configuration of stand and pillow the memorial arrangement was set upon looks very much like a rocking chair to me, with the portrait mounted just at the spot where one might