Wonderful Antique Gem Tintype of Uncomfortable Looking Child with Mother's Hand old painting g took a pledge of total

took a pledge of total abstinence and  met once a week to listen to lectures and participate in activities

features a pagoda in landscape and is very finely done

one of a good number of drawings of his I purchased together

and to a couple of numbers--but I really love those birds lined up in a row facing in the same direction

terminating in a ball

Wonderful Antique Gem Tintype of Uncomfortable Looking Child with Mother's Hand old painting g took a pledge of totalI 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,