A Gentle Hand (and Short Breeches!) 19th C. Ambrotype of 18th Century Painting in Half Case hobo There are two different white

There are two different white paints--most are painted what I would call gallery (or pedestal) white

Pennsylvania folk art watercolor in rich brown and pink--colors made I think not from pigments in a watercolor set

which is so Dutch

but very warm and heartfelt

I’m not personally a huge fan of mid-century“fat lava” ceramics

A Gentle Hand (and Short Breeches!) 19th C. Ambrotype of 18th Century Painting in Half Case hobo There are two different whiteI 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