REST, W.H. Swan, Ludlow Vermont c. 1880s Funerary Memorial Cabinet Card mushroom sculpture I don't even know how

I don't even know how to describe it but it's incredible

with smile turned up to one side

with room for just a few tall trees around the edges

Oil on board I believe

REST, W.H. Swan, Ludlow Vermont c. 1880s Funerary Memorial Cabinet Card mushroom sculpture I don't even know howPerhaps in part because I was really tired when I found it, this one completely spoke to me! One does see a fair number of cabinet cards and stereoviews of funerary flower arrangements, but I think this is really a wonderful example, and rather a transcendent one too whatever the configuration of stand and pillow the memorial arrangement was set upon looks very much like a rocking chair to me, with the portrait mounted just at the spot where one might