Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 adam and eve which reads more as dark

which reads more as dark brown now

still super useful as a pin cushion

This is about the loveliest little watercolor of the sea that I think I’ve ever seen

framed size 10

or re-papered

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 adam and eve which reads more as darkThis is one of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them, like this one, are signed and dated at bottom, others initialed on , so they represent the work of a few different people, most likely young women, among whom seaweed collecting and pressing was quite the thing during the Victorian era. I love the fact that making these represented not just a burgeoning interest in the