A Gentle Hand (and Short Breeches!) 19th C. Ambrotype of 18th Century Painting in Half Case embroidered figure on muslin with four separate setting dials

with four separate setting dials on the back

Below the photo

Exemplifying exquisite craft

1830s-40s Staffordshire transferware Hare plate

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 with four separate setting dialsI 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