Victorian Memorial Hairwork - Mourning a Child Graveyard scene

  • France , 1840
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France, 1840. Single horizontal hairline crack in under glass. Wear to frame.. A scene depicting a headstone beneath a weeping tree. It is captions "penser a votre petite Marie" (thinking of your little Marie). grass and flowers at the base and a conifer nearby. All created with wispy snippets of hair. Delicate fine work. Housed in an oval frame with convex glass. Sight view 4.5" by 3.5". Frame 7" by 6

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