Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype folk art painted figure Great dry patina to the

Great dry patina to the pine

This and the rest from what I understand came from a  sketchbook of drawings Malta did in the 1930s or so

and a penmanship practice exercise on reverse

and which clearly occupied a significant space in some little girl's imagination quite long ago

and this is the one I've been waiting for

Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype folk art painted figure Great dry patina to theI often use the word painterly to describe tintypes that have a poetic sort of spareness and tonal richness to them I'm not totally sure how to articulate it, but it's a particular sort of beauty, and distinguishes them from the bulk of tintype portraits one finds. Anyway, whatever it is, this for me embodies it. The crisp rake of that cloth draped table edge, coming in from the right, and how it echoes the cross of his leg, and the way that old