Major Phipps on Horseback, Maryland Volunteer Infantry in Georgia, 1899 Mounted Cyanotype plant specimens especially where the lines of

especially where the lines of one section cross over top of the section that frames her face

creamy white hand-painted capital letters against rusty surface really do it for me on this sign

(Here's a link to one that recently sold at auction: https://www

with the three boards on top I might guess cut down from something else with the paint already on them

Major Phipps on Horseback, Maryland Volunteer Infantry in Georgia, 1899 Mounted Cyanotype plant specimens especially where the lines ofThe word "iconic" has become much overused, but this cyanotype struck me in that way, feeling like an iconic and very cinematic portrait of a soldier on horseback, with the striations to the sky behind him enhancing the effect, almost like some sort of otherwordly phenomenon of light or the aurora borealis! Happily, a handwritten note on the back of the mount provides full details: 1st Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry on practice march in Georgia,