Eh, doesn't work well with the factors that led to the penny-farthing.

The penny-farthing was a direct drive on the front wheel - no chain. It had you positioned on top of the wheel to get as much traction as possible.

A primitive recumbent trike would tend towards the same design, like a child's trike, with no chain and a direct drive on the front wheel.

And because you'd get terrible traction, with so little weight, you'd be dead in the water until the machining was available to engineer a chain system to connect pedals in front of the cyclist with wheels underneath. I don't think there's any penny-and-two-farthings intermediate to make the recumbent trike work before that.