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

early 19th century be my guess

with only pretty minor loss here and there

and was done by a Mary Ann James

but this one struck me as quite lovely and nicely done

modern and earthy all rolled into one

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