SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap counting with light overall wear

with light overall wear

overflowing with a bounty of what appears to be fruit

The subtlety of the pale pink text also makes it feel as if just whispering its message of endurance

In addition to all that is viscerally satisfying about it as a sculptural object now

all highly covetable

SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap counting with light overall wearI'm very tempted to keep this one for myself because I really love the sense of presence and appearance of this woman (face to hair to collar to dress to belt), and also, especially, because I love the old string wrap holding the layers of mat and glass and photo together having lost the foil wrap "preserver" that would once have done so, and the case it was surely once housed in too. The string repair is old, with corrosion corresponding to its