Handsome Young Couple on Rowboat Outing, Crystal Sharp Albumen Cabinet Photo unusual lace medalion My favorite genre in the

My favorite genre in the world might just be old folk art drawings of girls with much beloved pets

with the "no chemicals" on the interior lip

very late 18th/very early 19th century

so of course I had to ask to see it

--horsehair bristles

Handsome Young Couple on Rowboat Outing, Crystal Sharp Albumen Cabinet Photo unusual lace medalion My favorite genre in theI love this for the quality of the photograph, capturing most every leaf and bit of bark with crystal clarity, but also for the fact of its "subjects" nearly disappearing amidst all those trees good camouflage for an afternoon tryst, I'd say! Looking closely though, one can make out every detail of this handsome young man in white and young woman in fancy plaid dressto see that she is the one doing all of the work pulling their row boat safely onto