A Gentle Hand (and Short Breeches!) 19th C. Ambrotype of 18th Century Painting in Half Case embroidered figure on muslin spare but deeply expressive

spare but deeply expressive

1830s-40s Staffordshire transferware Hare plate

And to my eye just the perfect framing

I purchased this beautifully executed charcoal drawing directly from a seller in France along with one other

The rich custard colored enameled surface also really sets off the color in everything else

A Gentle Hand (and Short Breeches!) 19th C. Ambrotype of 18th Century Painting in Half Case embroidered figure on muslin spare but deeply expressiveI wish I knew more about this one an ambrotype, found in MA, of an earlier painting, which looks Revolutionary War era to me (and him a bit like John Adams!), at the center of which is the gesture of her hand on his cuff with painted gold wedding band on her finger though I must say it looks a bit to me like the fingers of her other hand, resting in her lap, are crossed! (And the gesture itself feels, perhaps cynically on my part, like a bit of a