Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype middlesex england ) Earlyish 20th c

) Earlyish 20th c

caught by chance in an image of something else

which in this case feels to me exactly right and makes me love the photo all the more

Solid color cotton fabrics for the red and two shades of green rind and border

and he is otherwise in great shape

Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype middlesex england ) Earlyish 20th cI often use the word painterly to describe tintypes that have a poetic sort of spareness and tonal richness to them I'm not totally sure how to articulate it, but it's a particular sort of beauty, and distinguishes them from the bulk of tintype portraits one finds. Anyway, whatever it is, this for me embodies it. The crisp rake of that cloth draped table edge, coming in from the right, and how it echoes the cross of his leg, and the way that old