Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 hand-painted slides I first wanted to describe

I first wanted to describe this small watercolor as serene

yielding simply ST

sort of in between an old silhouette and an early studio photograph

particularly around the shoulders and near the base further animate the surface

and they're super useful in the kitchen for scooping small measures of spices

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 hand-painted slides I first wanted to describeThis is one of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them are signed and dated at bottom, others like this one initialed on back (C. A. S), so they represent the work of a few different people, most likely young women, among whom seaweed collecting and pressing was quite the thing during the Victorian era. I love the fact that making these represented not just a burgeoning