Side Glancing Woman in a Bonnet, 19th C. Sixth Plate Tintype of Folk Art Painting dawan enhanced with black and red

enhanced with black and red pigment

I'd assume from the farm of a family whose last name began with "R"

into which one might read (or onto which one might project) a mix of pleasure and sadness and perhaps some scheming and secrets too

I can never resist a good bunny

Side Glancing Woman in a Bonnet, 19th C. Sixth Plate Tintype of Folk Art Painting dawan enhanced with black and redThe latest example in my ongoing quest for photographs of paintings and what a face on this woman, carried forward from folk art painted portrait to tintype, and with the smoky ground, lighter hard left edge, and clipped corners making it feel almost as if she were trapped inside a box forever! I love her side cast gaze, and prominent nose, and pinkened cheeks, but most of all I love the play between the ruffle of her bonnet as it crosses her forehead