Wonderful Antique Gem Tintype of Uncomfortable Looking Child with Mother's Hand drawing of boys selling bananas or wrapping cloth

or wrapping cloth

but has a little wiggle and a tiny gap between it and the body

with something of a hard-scrabble

the sticks/ribs are bamboo

Wonderful Antique Gem Tintype of Uncomfortable Looking Child with Mother's Hand drawing of boys selling bananas or wrapping clothI love a gem tintype something much more precious feeling about tiny things and this portrait of a very expressive and uncomfortably positioned child, with the large hand of her semi hidden mother wrapped around her, is all the better for its gem scale. For me, it is the blur of the mother's cropped face at upper right (feeling all the more shadowy elusive to the naked eye) that really makes this, making the mother seem almost like a ghost or spirit,