SOLD Diana Efesima (Artemis of Ephesus), Museo di Napoli, 1875 Grand Tour Albumen Print pennsylvania folk with that creamy white paint

with that creamy white paint making me swoon

PA was an early American toy maker and produced some quite singular

and great beauty to the wrapping and tying of the ends to the boards

and this one has a 3 inch caliper that pulls out at one end

but the box itself

SOLD Diana Efesima (Artemis of Ephesus), Museo di Napoli, 1875 Grand Tour Albumen Print pennsylvania folk with that creamy white paintA year or so ago I bought and sold a couple of c. 1875 Grand Tour albumen photos documenting sculptures in the Museum di Napoli (now known as the National Archaeological Museum, Naples); this past week I went back to the same dealer who had put out a few more and I snapped them right up and this one, especially, I'm very tempted to keep for myself, to have her serve as my guiding light! The sculpture, known as Diana Efesima, the Farnese Artemis, or