Beautifully Composed, Poetic Old Presumed Medical Snapshot Photo of Propped Leg and Foot kid writing Nearly a gross of it

Nearly a gross of it still

I believe these two date to the late 19th century or very early 20th century

and which seems the perfect ribbon to wear as a headband

Clearly he (I presume) was referencing (probably carefully copying) one or a series of books as he did these profusely labeled drawings of skeletons and musculature and facial expressions

trapping the proverbial mouse inside

Beautifully Composed, Poetic Old Presumed Medical Snapshot Photo of Propped Leg and Foot kid writing Nearly a gross of itThis is one I have spent a lot of time looking at and keep coming back to to look some more. I believe the snapshot was likely taken for medical purposes, documenting the condition of the subject's foot and leg, but for me it is so much about the formal qualities of the image as a whole (the tonalities, the lines of the stools, the surface of the floor, the arc of the leg, the curve of the frame in the background) which, combined with the sense of