Birth Place, Unusual Antique Cabinet Card Photo of Punch Paper House Portrait Needlepoint naturally dyes This is the sort of

This is the sort of watercolor I'd hang amid a salon style wall

I found these hanging side by side on a wall and they just struck me as beautiful things to display that way--the long necks of the swans together forming an upside down heart with front sides facing

) Fourth quarter 20th c or so

but its of equivalent age

Birth Place, Unusual Antique Cabinet Card Photo of Punch Paper House Portrait Needlepoint naturally dyes This is the sort ofYou know I love a photograph of an earlier photo, and a photograph of an earlier painted portrait too: technological innovations, such as the invention of the tintype, enabled the production of inexpensive copies, and hence an easier carrying forward of the past into the future. (Such richness in moments of transition and translation from one medium to another I always think.) This though is I believe is the first cabinet card I've seen capturing a