Existential Feeling Tintype Portrait of a Wide Eyed Baby with Half Hidden Mother card playing to Connecticut

to Connecticut

but nearly all of the flat "tablets" or flat cardboard shape templates are present

published in 1832

but it appears to me to be a tintype photo of an earlier watercolor

Existential Feeling Tintype Portrait of a Wide Eyed Baby with Half Hidden Mother card playing to ConnecticutI really really love the expression on the face of this baby looking as though all at once confronting the world as a whole and the question of life's meaning facing the void! An intense, wide eyed stare that feels completely true and all encompassing. And then mother, at left, in partial view, looking somewhat solicitous but no great help! 3 1 4" x 2 3 8" and in good antique condition, irregular left edge and clipped left bottom corner.