C. 1880s Albumen Print of Bronze Gazelle at Naples Museum game board box This is the second of

This is the second of these great brass cheese wedge pen holders I've had in the shop--how not to feel a little happier with this on the desk

which appears to be a soft gray-green on a few of the sides and more of a gray-blue elsewhere

with just the bottom of his stamp-collaged shorts and ink-drawn shoes peeking out below

Handwritten attribution on reverse

The bold choice of gold mat in combination with gilded frame here thus feels quite right and specific

C. 1880s Albumen Print of Bronze Gazelle at Naples Museum game board box This is the second ofI went back to my source to find one more of antique photograph of classical sculpture from the Naples Museum, after buying and selling a couple of others a few months ago this one of a bronze gazelle found at Ercolana (Herculaneum), not far from Naples. An albumen print c. 1880s I believe, it was probably acquired on a "Grand Tour." As noted in describing a set of early 20th c. photogravure postcards from the Archeological Museum in Athens, also