Glass Plate Negative of Woman Skating Figure Eights on Pond, 1890s brush with light wood handle or what it would have

or what it would have been used for

but when I saw this set it just took my breath away and I could not leave it behind

which had been attacked by plague

7 1/2" tall x 3 5/8" in diameter

Glass Plate Negative of Woman Skating Figure Eights on Pond, 1890s brush with light wood handle or what it would haveI love this antique glass plate negative for many reasons, including for dense wall of spindly trees in the background, and for what one imagines was this woman's pure pleasure in skating, but most of all for the figure eight traced on the surface of the ice, clearly drawn by her skates many times over. I like glass place negatives that are great objects in and of themselves, and here I think the wintery trees and traces of her skates on the ice are