Spider in Web Spun Across Frame, Curious and Beautiful Old Hungarian(?) Photo metal plate but close looking reveals that

but close looking reveals that it is a marvelously executed collage

and with some nice bubbling to the old varnish on front

His work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts & Design

a number of which are held in the collections of the Vineyard Haven Library and Martha’s Vineyard Museum

Feels a bit like the 19th century predecessor of a Magic 8 ball

Spider in Web Spun Across Frame, Curious and Beautiful Old Hungarian(?) Photo metal plate but close looking reveals thatBased on the stamp on this one in purple ink at lower right I believe it is Hungarian; looks like it says Budapest to me. (And when this image was taken, Transylvania was still part of Hungary, which seems right for an image of a spider at the center of its web to me!) No explanation was this spinning of its web across this hanging frame a constructed situation, or a chance occupation of sorts? Whatever the case, a marvelous image, and just in time