Unusual Early Daguerreotype Depicting Folk Art Drawing of Young Boy nature painting is nice and deep

is nice and deep

and as if it might be ancient

all pages bound and not fragile

vary in size

yielding some red along one edge in one photo and some uneven lighting)

Unusual Early Daguerreotype Depicting Folk Art Drawing of Young Boy nature painting is nice and deepI'm finding myself more and more drawn to things that feel mysterious and elusive, and this feels very much that. It's a sixth plate daguerreotype of a naive graphite drawing depicting a young child in profile with eyes closed and small hands in their lap, suggesting perhaps it was a postmortem drawing (?) though with a gentle sweetness that makes it seem as if he was just poised for bedtime. It appears to have been hand tinted, adding just a blush of