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![[Picture: Rustic victorian border with 3d canopy design]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/pages/278-vintage-rustic-victorian-border-with-canopy-shadow/278-vintage-rustic-victorian-border-with-canopy-shadow-q85-789x1312.jpg "[Picture: Rustic victorian border with 3d canopy design]")
This rustic border or surround is drawn to look like an engraving of a stone niche or cartouche; the original had a statue of Ariel inside it.
