Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child tower blocks 13 1/2" long x 3

13 1/2" long x 3 1/4" w x 2 1/4"

stating or sitting

plusher is teacher Miss Mayo's name at the top

Ink and pencil on rag paper

I believe at least the darker wood is walnut

Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child tower blocks 13 1/2" long x 3I've always looking for antique photos and anything really made better by the chance effects of time, and this is very much one of those. I believe originally the cheeks of this mother and child were given a pink hand tinted blush, but over time that blush turned to near black, now looking like dramatic blemishes or diseases of the skin, which seem as if threatening to overtake their faces entirely. The result makes me think of Hawthorne's The