I have an artist-dealer friend in Maine who has been the source of a series of very wonderful and unusual stereoviews--the dragonflies and Great Storm of 1870 hail stones last week, and these Asiatic lilies, too. Gorgeous, and with the light hitting the dark fabric backdrop, exposing ripples and folds, lending a very immediate sort of intimacy. Signed on reverse "W. Davis" and dated 1905, with a note that the photograph was printed on "Solio" paper (introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1888) and printed using Solio toning bath formula. It seems quite possible W. Davis was Winfield. S. Davis, a popular photographer and maker of stereoviews in Ellenville, New York from the mid-1880s to 1902, who sold his gallery there after the death of his wife.
7" x 3 1/2 and in very good condition, better in person, rich tonality and great objecthood.
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