Waiting at the Well with Bat and Ball, Poignant Antique Mounted Albumen Photograph gorgeous pattern closes up tight

closes up tight

though the "fine girl" might also describe this pretty and kind looking Red Cross Nurse herself

" such an excellent work to have been carved--someone's last name I presume

Clearly was removed at some point from a school notebook

and Duchampian too

Waiting at the Well with Bat and Ball, Poignant Antique Mounted Albumen Photograph gorgeous pattern closes up tightA little bit of a Waiting For Godot aspect to this one, at least in my mind, as if this boy might sit here forever with bat and ball in hand, his pitcher never to arrive. As such it seems exactly right that he should be planted next to this well (font of life, and surely the designated meeting spot for many a thing), itself looking rather forlorn, empty bucket hanging. I could look at this all day and again tomorrow and indeed our boy would still be