Finely Dressed Woman with Black Lace and Blue Ribbons, Ultra Sharp and Also Otherworldly Feeling Early Tintype sketches face sketches the lemon stands alone

the lemon stands alone

and the large windows on three sides

I'd be inclined to keep these close at hand

thin arches of his eyebrows

Finely Dressed Woman with Black Lace and Blue Ribbons, Ultra Sharp and Also Otherworldly Feeling Early Tintype sketches face sketches the lemon stands aloneThere are tintype portraits and then there are tintype portraits, and what a moody stunner this one. Ultra sharp, with every detail on her lace gloves and veil and every flower on her bonnet richly captured, such that she feels completely right there in front of us. (Though she also has a bit of the feeling of living in the spirit world to me!) With the wide ribbon of her bonnet hand tinted a light blue that really pops, and some subtler color on her