5/21/2023 0 Comments Picframe vintageI wanted to post a link to the small acrylic drawers that I found at the Container Store. My bathroom linen closet holds towels, but no bed linens (we keep those in the B/Rs). We recently finished a bathroom renovation, which involved tearing out the old linen closet and replacing it with a wider, shallower unit built from a base cabinet and a wall cabinet. Regardless of how it pans out, and even if it turns out to be a Cracker Barrel nostalgia 's a Jim Dandy and worth hanging on a wall just to see the mug on that kid. I'm no expert and I'm not pretending to be but before I'd blow this one off as a fake, I'd have it checked out. So, they coughed up the money, even with ten kids, to have a portrait taken of her. One portrait my g'parents had taken in the twenties was of my little aunt who was expected to die at birth, but lived until two years. But they certainly were special enough not to be done on a whim. Even poor people scrounged up the money for portraits in the old days, God knows my ancestors weren't rich people and we have them to pass along. I think this is what happened to the boy's was probably enhanced by hand and the chair by imagination and lack of artistic ability. It has been hand tinted, and if you look at her blouse, it has obviously been hand retouched for detail and the bottom darkened out to extend the photo as much as possible to the paper to fill it. I have a portrait of my g'grandmother I'm inserting here because judging by her age it would have been taken about 1918-20. So seeing 'sketch marks' doesn't prove anything but the skill of the craftsman who took and developed the portrait because you're just as likely to see the editing on a real photograph as not. It wasn't because of the cameras not being able to, but the studios having the equipment to develop them. LOL It was not an unusual practise, clear on up to the forties and fifties for some photographers to take portraits in black and white and hand tint and retouch them in the dark room. If you'd like to see an example of a turn of the century hand painted studio backdrop, I can show you a large portrait of my great-grandfather and his brother sitting in a real chair, but with a very fake staircase behind them. My impression at this point is that this is likely a studio portrait and that it is in essence a composite with the facial features being the true rendering off a negative and the rest a lot of touch up and very poorly executed outright embellishment. That being said, one can take a photo of a drawing and parts of this picture are without a doubt hand rendered including the background and that could very well be a studio backdrop. The actual print inside the frame gave me the impression of a photograph because of the fine white line like old photos get when they are damaged. I think there is a little bit of truth in many of the posts so far and I've changed my mind on this one at least five times. This is a most riveting subject, and a most interesting thread.
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