Wonderful Antique Gem Tintype of Uncomfortable Looking Child with Mother's Hand drawing of boys selling bananas with just some white paint

with just some white paint loss to those tall pillars

but has a little wiggle and a tiny gap between it and the body

presence and absence--and that little puppy is pretty great

and a bit of irregularity to one long edge from where it was cut out from the album

Wonderful Antique Gem Tintype of Uncomfortable Looking Child with Mother's Hand drawing of boys selling bananas with just some white paintI love a gem tintype something much more precious feeling about tiny things and this portrait of a very expressive and uncomfortably positioned child, with the large hand of her semi hidden mother wrapped around her, is all the better for its gem scale. For me, it is the blur of the mother's cropped face at upper right (feeling all the more shadowy elusive to the naked eye) that really makes this, making the mother seem almost like a ghost or spirit,