Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child old carved box leaf and bird design may

leaf and bird design may the most exquisite among them

terminating in the suggestion of a head near the base

It is equally likely that Beata is in fact the title

and think both the duck and the astronaut are pretty fabulous

I've documented a representative sample of engravings--a selection of engravings first followed by a few pages of text

Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child old carved box leaf and bird design mayI'm forever on the hunt of early photographs of folk art paintings, and photographs of photographs, too (representations of representations, emblematic of the emergence of new modes of representation, and also emblematic of the want to preserve pieces of the past and carry them forward) and I believe this is both a tintype copy I'd guess of an daguerreotype or ambrotype of a painting of a young child. [The other possibility I suppose would be a