Young Woman in Gold with Butterfly, Verre Eglomise Miniature, c. 1830s fidget toy ready to receive the pass

ready to receive the pass and put it up

I don't know a think about surveyor's tools

Like three separate choreographed vignettes sharing the same frame: young women in foreground (with great faces

with three pages advertising other Fowler and Wells publications at back

this one for me all about the whole mise en scene

Young Woman in Gold with Butterfly, Verre Eglomise Miniature, c. 1830s fidget toy ready to receive the passThis is a reverse glass painted (verre glomis) miniature engraving in original gold toned (brass I believe) frame, c. 1830s and French. One sees the lids of French patch boxes and bon bon containers executed in this manner, but this appears only to have ever been a portrait, with original papered reverse enclosed by the teeth of the frame. And with the golden butterfly at her shoulder the hinge of the painting, rationalizing the revealing concealing,