Strange Baby! 1930 Hand-colored Photo of Child with Objects, 10 Months Old, Original Frame Cinnabar bowl of treasures box 2 1/8" long x 1"

2 1/8" long x 1" wide x 1 3/8" tall

yielding a sandpaper texture and lending a sort of magical shimmer to the charcoal drawing

The green of the grass is acidic enough to give the whole thing a glow-y pop

but I am pretty certain they are French

Strange Baby! 1930 Hand-colored Photo of Child with Objects, 10 Months Old, Original Frame Cinnabar bowl of treasures box 2 1/8" long x 1"A few strange ones today and this is definitely one of those! An original hand colored photograph in original frame, dated on the back; looks to read "About June 3, 1930, 10 months old." I'd say the hand coloring here did this child no favors their head looks almost as if superimposed on their little body, and the expression on this baby's face captures just the sort of bewilderment that makes it feel highly relatable, and really rather transcendent