Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 metallic and especially about that white

and especially about that white horse ethereally floating between earth and sky in front of that bushy tree

this striking large black vase is unmarked

Like new condition

Brushes each measure 8" long x 2 1/2" tall

carved out ears perfectly framing the long slope of a nose

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 metallic and especially about that whiteThis 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 signed on back (Maggie, in this case), 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