Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child house boat design are fairly close

are fairly close

I'm listing this antique embroidery on linen pin cushion just as I found it -- stuck full of pins

imagining being in that sailboat on calm

and this is really a nice example

which has many years life in it yet as a potholder

Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child house boat design are fairly closeI'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