Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype British steam liner which show bruises and veins

which show bruises and veins

which has an almost electric feeling about it

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Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype British steam liner which show bruises and veinsI've been paying more attention to hand painted folk art tintypes of late, and this one is exactly why wonderfully strange! I do think the face on this baby looked a little like the face of an old man to begin with, but the painted blue eyes very much contribute to it, and the pinking of those downturned lips, too. And then these wonderful graphite drawn hands, like little paws resting on a big belly! With charming white painted lace collar and cuffs,