Farnese Hercules, From Behind, Large Grand Tour Albumen Print in Original Sleeve abstract expressionist drawing and one of my favorites--not

and one of my favorites--not your average tramp art box

with some holes in the stocking testifying to some moths or something nibbling away at it at some point--unless it was a hole-y stocking to begin with

to the way Cornelius has written his name and numbers 1-4 on the inside flap

I'm not entirely sure what it once would have held that fit into that round niche--perhaps a pot of rouge

I love an old brush

Farnese Hercules, From Behind, Large Grand Tour Albumen Print in Original Sleeve abstract expressionist drawing and one of my favorites--notThere is a dealer at an antique mall near Boston I frequent who has been doling out late 19th century Grand Tour albumen prints of sculptures in the collection of the Napoli Museo (National Archaeological Museum of Naples) a few at a time; I keep snapping them up, of course how to resist this view of Hercules??? With apples from the garden of Hesperides in his very large hand, which makes them look the size of walnuts:) and the skin of the Nemean lion