Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman Richard Rohac Austria That is gone

That is gone

I haven't turned up much about Edward Loring Horn yet

I love everything about this painting

I think the lettering was probably airbrushed

The postures

Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman Richard Rohac Austria That is goneI love the ambiguity of this image, which I believe is a CDV that was scallop cut along the bottom before being mounted to the card, c. 1865. What is interesting to me about it is how the quality of the image to begin with combined with its aging over time make it feel very close to to a cut paper silhouette, and also almost as if it were a photograph of a statue, though details like the eyelashes and locks of hair surely point the former. Ultimately