Major Phipps on Horseback, Maryland Volunteer Infantry in Georgia, 1899 Mounted Cyanotype plant specimens 1 11/16” x 11/16” x

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especially where the lines of one section cross over top of the section that frames her face

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Major Phipps on Horseback, Maryland Volunteer Infantry in Georgia, 1899 Mounted Cyanotype plant specimens 1 11/16” x 11/16” xThe word "iconic" has become much overused, but this cyanotype struck me in that way, feeling like an iconic and very cinematic portrait of a soldier on horseback, with the striations to the sky behind him enhancing the effect, almost like some sort of otherwordly phenomenon of light or the aurora borealis! Happily, a handwritten note on the back of the mount provides full details: 1st Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry on practice march in Georgia,