Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child painted walnuts true jet black of those

true jet black of those gorgeous spades

Someone more knowledgable than I identifies it as 19th century Scandanavian

and for the fact that from one side especially it appears to have double eyes--one orange glass

which makes me sure it is late-ish 19th c

It looks to me that our woman in magenta and orange is potting or tending to a plant

Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child painted walnuts true jet black of thoseI'm forever on the hunt of early photographs of folk art paintings, and photographs of photographs, too (representations of representations, emblematic of the emergence of new modes of representation, and also emblematic of the want to preserve pieces of the past and carry them forward) and I believe this is both a tintype copy I'd guess of an daguerreotype or ambrotype of a painting of a young child. [The other possibility I suppose would be a