Glass positive 1870s image of women playing lawn tennis framed as a buying window hanging

buying This unique 8.25" X 5.25" glass window hanging is a positive image printed directly on glass and framed in white metal with small hoops for hanging. Because the image is positive and not a negative backed by japanned black tin, this is not an ambrotype but a glass plate intended to be viewed against a light source, rather like a lantern slide. The lower third has been damaged, probably by high heat or fire, but the injury barely impinges on the portrait. The resulting crackling has been addressed by a layer of acrylic paint on the hanging's verso side. The four young women standing relaxed in front of a lawn tennis net makes for a charming accent for any tennis lover, fan of Victoriana, or felicitous household.