Painterly Pinks, Lovely Victorian Mounted Sea Moss Specimen antique tobacco silk embracing a sweetheart - while

embracing a sweetheart - while looking straight at us with an expression that seems some combination of eager and sly

with all sorts of different ways one can configure the blocks to form the cube

stands squarely

Executed in graphite

I think 1830s)

Painterly Pinks, Lovely Victorian Mounted Sea Moss Specimen antique tobacco silk embracing a sweetheart - whileI come across lone sea moss samples now and then, which tend to show their age and some related losses, but this just a beauty of an example, very painterly and lush and ethereal feeling, as if still rippling in the current, under the sea. Paper 8 7 8" x 5 11 16". Very good condition, 19th century, securely mounted to good weight paper.