Farnese Hercules, From Behind, Large Grand Tour Albumen Print in Original Sleeve abstract expressionist drawing I love an old brush

I love an old brush

to the way Cornelius has written his name and numbers 1-4 on the inside flap

It appears to be carved of stone

with some holes in the stocking testifying to some moths or something nibbling away at it at some point--unless it was a hole-y stocking to begin with

and earlyish 19th c

Farnese Hercules, From Behind, Large Grand Tour Albumen Print in Original Sleeve abstract expressionist drawing I love an old brushThere 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; I keep snapping them up, of course how to resist this view of Hercules??? With apples from the garden of Hesperides in his very large hand, which makes them look the size of walnuts:) and the skin of the Nemean lion