Late 19th C. Grand Tour Albumen Photo of Seated Woman (formerly described as Agrippina the Younger), Naples Museum handled vase but the equal attention paid

but the equal attention paid to faces and outfits and gestures and hairstyles I think makes them more interesting- perhaps partially a means of veiling or offsetting the former

then varnished

Cards measure 2 1/4" x 3 1/2"

71 pages plus end pages

and deeply true

Late 19th C. Grand Tour Albumen Photo of Seated Woman (formerly described as Agrippina the Younger), Naples Museum handled vase but the equal attention paidThere is a dealer at an antique mall near Boston I frequent who has been doling out late 19th century Grand Tour albumen prints of sculptures in the collection of the Napoli Museo (National Archaeological Museum of Naples) a few at a time and I keep snapping them up. The marble sculpture here was long thought to portray the Empress Agrippina the Younger, or "Minor" wife of Claudius and mother of Nero but that attribution was changed in the early 20th