Backs Turned, Bodies Lost to Grassy Hill, Lighthouses, Late 19th Century Paper Print Cyanotype sketches of young women and a pretty rare one

and a pretty rare one

among whom seaweed collecting and pressing was quite the thing during the Victorian era

but good for whatever little odds and ends now

I've only found one other set out there like this

held by three screws

Backs Turned, Bodies Lost to Grassy Hill, Lighthouses, Late 19th Century Paper Print Cyanotype sketches of young women and a pretty rare oneThe lighthouse pictured here is Cape Neddick Lighthouse (aka "Nubble Lighthouse") in Cape Neddick, Maine, completed about 1880. (Lots about that history here. ) There are plenty of photos of it out there, historic and contemporary, but none I've found that portrays a sense of this grassy expanse from which one might look up at it. And for me it's all about that perspective, with only the heads and shoulders of this seated pair visible, their bodies