Perfectly Stark, Antique Tintype of Sensitive Looking Young Man antique portrait drawing Since finding an antique brass

Since finding an antique brass barrel type lock with rotating disk letters

The graphics of the faces I think are just terrific

come spring

1850-something for sure) and attributed on the back of the frame as portraying a Rosina Farmer

with the cherries a reference to his cherry tree

Perfectly Stark, Antique Tintype of Sensitive Looking Young Man antique portrait drawing Since finding an antique brassI've got a special weakness for super stark and spare antique tintype portraits that thus feel very contemporary. This one is a case in point, and reminds me, including for the combination of intensity and vulnerability that seem to reside in this you mans gaze, of the work of Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, which I very much love. Feels beyond time and also hyper present to me, very beautiful. C. 1870s. 2 x 3 1 4". General wear and aging, feeling