Spider in Web Spun Across Frame, Curious and Beautiful Old Hungarian(?) Photo metal plate theorem style

theorem style

which would have allowed it to be joined in of a line of other decoys floating along in a group

also in Ravenna

and with some nice bubbling to the old varnish on front

Feels a bit like the 19th century predecessor of a Magic 8 ball

Spider in Web Spun Across Frame, Curious and Beautiful Old Hungarian(?) Photo metal plate theorem styleBased on the stamp on this one in purple ink at lower right I believe it is Hungarian; looks like it says Budapest to me. (And when this image was taken, Transylvania was still part of Hungary, which seems right for an image of a spider at the center of its web to me!) No explanation was this spinning of its web across this hanging frame a constructed situation, or a chance occupation of sorts? Whatever the case, a marvelous image, and just in time