Curiously Posed Woman with Parasol and Raised Hand, Antique RPPC caricature portrait and then this great fence

and then this great fence around them and two great brown ducks marching along below

blue and black

9 1/8" t x 7 1/16" w

or modernist

Curiously Posed Woman with Parasol and Raised Hand, Antique RPPC caricature portrait and then this great fenceIt took me quite a while to figure out what was going on in this portrait, which is part of why I like it! At first I thought it was some sort of rod she holds, pointing off to the left but I finally realized it is the handle of a parasol, tipped 90 degrees to its side. (Adding the confusion is what I presume is the rolled cuff of the right sleeve, which looks almost like a brace attached to her arm.) And then this curious gesture she makes with her