Glass Plate Negative of Woman Skating Figure Eights on Pond, 1890s whimsy spoon I am not certain of

I am not certain of the artist as the only mark on the bottom is "1642 Italy" and I have not found its match

He passed away in 1997 at the age of 96

I believe it is the very earliest sets of U

It appears to be signed or marked on the bottom but I cannot make it out

Glass Plate Negative of Woman Skating Figure Eights on Pond, 1890s whimsy spoon I am not certain ofI love this antique glass plate negative for many reasons, including for dense wall of spindly trees in the background, and for what one imagines was this woman's pure pleasure in skating, but most of all for the figure eight traced on the surface of the ice, clearly drawn by her skates many times over. I like glass place negatives that are great objects in and of themselves, and here I think the wintery trees and traces of her skates on the ice are