Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant carved ornament perfectly balanced with abstract flourish

perfectly balanced with abstract flourish on the other side

so I think it could pass as a fly as well

dwarfed by bed and bench

I like how the thin strips of wood drawing a line between one house and the other and then again on either far side seem to suggest that this neighborhood might extend ad infinitum in either direction--ah

and at the center

Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant carved ornament perfectly balanced with abstract flourishI'm not altogether certain how to untangle this one, but it appears to me to be a tintype photo of an earlier watercolor, I presume a portrait miniature but perhaps it is a tintype of a daguerreotype of a painting (??) And I love the mystery and ambiguity of it in many respects; while sharing qualities of post mortem daguerreotypes, where infants were carefully laid out in a similar manner here on what looks like a chaise, with a curtain draped behind