Strange View, Narcissus-esque Old Snapshot Photo (Photo of Photo?) antique writing supplies but not too much

but not too much

I might fit it with bandaids and find it a special place in the bathroom

1795 portrait of a very similar looking gentleman by American itinerant folk artist John Brewster

Pith paper: 8 7/8" x 5"

CT and there were a few varieties of these they produced

Strange View, Narcissus-esque Old Snapshot Photo (Photo of Photo?) antique writing supplies but not too muchI'm quite taken with, and really rather obsessed with this one. Looks to me that the subject is drying herself off after a dip in the stream, and finding her reflection there with a certain mythological feeling about it all, as if she were Narcissus, or Bathsheba. It also looks to me that this may be a photo of another photo, which was propped up against something and shot at a bit of angle, with the bottom edge of the original photo the white strip