Late 19th C. Grand Tour Albumen Photo of Seated Woman (formerly described as Agrippina the Younger), Naples Museum still bank with the wings and tail

with the wings and tail of the blue plane snapped in half with perfect zig zag lines

looking quite peaceful and cozy

while the design on the interior container is more pronounced

with traces of a correction to the "A" in sale showing through just a little

Late 19th C. Grand Tour Albumen Photo of Seated Woman (formerly described as Agrippina the Younger), Naples Museum still bank with the wings and tailThere 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 and I keep snapping them up. The marble sculpture here was long thought to portray the Empress Agrippina the Younger, or "Minor" wife of Claudius and mother of Nero but that attribution was changed in the early 20th