Giorgio Sommer c. 1880 Albumen Print of Seated Hermes (Mercurio) at Naples Museum cape ann but this one I love

but this one I love more for the opposite reason: though very carefully sewn together with tiny red freehand stitches and given a nice cotton backing

1 1/2" measured across from the inside of the opening

with everything well secured

with a finely and wonderfully carved wooden back (oak

I used my critical eye (

Giorgio Sommer c. 1880 Albumen Print of Seated Hermes (Mercurio) at Naples Museum cape ann but this one I loveI've been really attracted to old photographs of classical sculptures statues of late, or just lucky enough to be coming across them and finding them really beautiful. This is one of two albumen prints I found together, dating to the 1880s, which I believe likely were acquired on a "Grand Tour." The subject of both is a sculpture of "Mercurio," more commonly known as Seated Hermes, held (still, I believe) in the collection of the Naples Museum. This