Vintage Copper Foil Portrait of Figure in Shorts Signed B.L.M antique mourning picture great details

great details

and both of which I'd never seen before--was the text reading "Little Strokes Fell Big Oaks / By diligence and patience the mouse eat in two the cable

which really set off the red of the boat itself

1903 at bottom right

imparting tales to the children or grandchildren she balances in her arms

Vintage Copper Foil Portrait of Figure in Shorts Signed B.L.M antique mourning picture great detailsLikely an art school exercise, though it's also got a bit of the feel of a trench art piece to me. I take it as a portrait of a woman, in pretty short shorts, who also looks a but as if she might be wearing an officer's cap though I could well be seeing things! Whatever the case, I like the manner of it a lot (better and a bit more sculptural and refined looking in person than in photos) from all those lines for the folds of cloth to all those tiny