Double Portrait: Ultra Moody 19th Century Cabinet Photo of a Hanging Miniature Portrait of a Woman fine handmade brush with plenty of crazing

with plenty of crazing

but it's quite lovely

these were made by lumberman

winds and unwinds smoothly and easily

each nail on the horizontal braces running to pegged hinges

Double Portrait: Ultra Moody 19th Century Cabinet Photo of a Hanging Miniature Portrait of a Woman fine handmade brush with plenty of crazingYou know I love a photograph of a painting, especially a portrait a likeness rendered in one form media translated into another, carrying the subject forward, across time. And to my eye this one is pure perfection. Ultra moody, perfect framing of the frame, with a perfect contrast between the clarity of detail on the frame and the painterliness of the portrait. And the ground, which looks likely like velvet, also has a bit of the feeling of skin. I'd