Skirts Hiked, Backs Turned, Wading, Antique Real Photo Postcard carved wooden cicada revealing itself to be shaped

revealing itself to be shaped like a book

7" long x 3 7/8" tall and in very good antique condition

and holds its shape to some extent

SR Stoddard

") She seems to me much more of the sort to have lived in a public place than a private home--I keep imagining this as one of a series of portrait-painted doors in a tavern or the like: delights for the eyes but again I think portrayed with a certain knowingness about her

Skirts Hiked, Backs Turned, Wading, Antique Real Photo Postcard carved wooden cicada revealing itself to be shapedI just love these ladies, in their own world together, backs turned and skirts hiked as they wade out, perhaps scavenging sea shells, or sea moss! I always like a real photo postcard with a white void beside the image too bringing us back to the making of the image, and amplifying a dynamic of presence and absence. 5 1 2" x 3 1 2", unused postcard back. Good antique condition, minor smudges on the blank half, very early 20th century.