Late 19th C. Grand Tour Albumen Photo of Seated Woman (formerly described as Agrippina the Younger), Naples Museum handled vase then varnished

then varnished

and deeply true

am thinking the spikes may have been added for stoking and scooping out a  fireplace

including lining the interior of the box with wallpaper

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Late 19th C. Grand Tour Albumen Photo of Seated Woman (formerly described as Agrippina the Younger), Naples Museum handled vase then varnishedThere is a dealer at an antique mall near Boston I frequent who has been doling out late 19th century Grand Tour albumen prints of sculptures in the collection of the Napoli Museo (National Archaeological Museum of Naples) a few at a time and I keep snapping them up. The marble sculpture here was long thought to portray the Empress Agrippina the Younger, or "Minor" wife of Claudius and mother of Nero but that attribution was changed in the early 20th