C. 1850 Hand-colored Queen of Clubs Transformation Card folk carvings My eye doesn't mind that

My eye doesn't mind that loss at all

really a study in mending

And a pretty great one I think

but based on the fact that there were several variations of this print at the sale

C. 1850 Hand-colored Queen of Clubs Transformation Card folk carvings My eye doesn't mind thatI believe this queen of clubs was part of a transformation card deck, c. 1850s often the royal cards in these decks just featured figures, while it was the pips of the numbered cards that were transformed incorporated into images. What I find especially intruiging is that her arms, though I presume actually intended to read as crossed, appear to me as if cut off at the elbows and left as stumps, which thus makes her veil read all the more as if tears