Woman with Lace Making Pillow, Self-Referential Antique Bobbin Lace Doily in Original Frame Italian opera painting aptly near the Washington Monument)

aptly near the Washington Monument) and dated 1918

I know that they came from a portfolio of drawings dated 1929

largely able to be cleaned away if one wanted

I will not tell

which I found this in

Woman with Lace Making Pillow, Self-Referential Antique Bobbin Lace Doily in Original Frame Italian opera painting aptly near the Washington Monument)A bit hard to capture this well due to glare, but I've done my best it is celluloid rather than glass in the frame, original to it, c. 1890s 1900 I believe. I love a piece of antique handmade figural lace, and I especially love things that are self referential, and here we have both: a piece of antique handmade bobbin lace with a picture at center of a seated woman with lace making pillow on her lap. (I've included a photo of the type of pillow used