Intense Blushing Boy in Shorts in High Chair, Antique Hand-tinted Tintype curves early 19th century be my

early 19th century be my guess

a dog with a ball

and was done by a Mary Ann James

with only pretty minor loss here and there

Intense Blushing Boy in Shorts in High Chair, Antique Hand-tinted Tintype curves early 19th century be myIn his gaze, and in his posture, this boy seems to me to possess a fantastic intensity which I find quite gripping, and the image holds a sort of otherworldliness too, enhanced by the fact that his chair appears almost as if levitating! And the glow of his hand painted pink cheeks furthers a sense of some sort of possessed ness! Plus those wool shorts, and hand painted gold buttons running down the front of his dark shirt. I found this one together