Strange View, Narcissus-esque Old Snapshot Photo (Photo of Photo?) antique writing supplies and pretty excellent from every

and pretty excellent from every angle

but these are not evident from most views

1795 portrait of a very similar looking gentleman by American itinerant folk artist John Brewster

two nails at top for the sights

but creating just the right amount of visual interest in its absence

Strange View, Narcissus-esque Old Snapshot Photo (Photo of Photo?) antique writing supplies and pretty excellent from everyI'm quite taken with, and really rather obsessed with this one. Looks to me that the subject is drying herself off after a dip in the stream, and finding her reflection there with a certain mythological feeling about it all, as if she were Narcissus, or Bathsheba. It also looks to me that this may be a photo of another photo, which was propped up against something and shot at a bit of angle, with the bottom edge of the original photo the white strip