Unusual (and Very Painterly) Hybrid: 19th Century Albumen Cabinet Card Photo of Dog with Painted Backdrop color mixing tool and no matter how you

and no matter how you arrange them

One short end is carved with a star

this copy very much worn and with a cracked spine

with cutout niches in the bottom piece into which the cross bars neatly fit

I think these lovely old carved swallows would be fantastic punched directly into the wall--in a swarm

Unusual (and Very Painterly) Hybrid: 19th Century Albumen Cabinet Card Photo of Dog with Painted Backdrop color mixing tool and no matter how youAt first I took this for a photograph of a painting of a dog, but I believe in fact the portrait of the dog, and the carpet it lies on, is photographic; it is just the background that was painted. And with some blurring of the lines along the back of the dog where photo and illusion meet, yielding a very atmospheric and painterly portrait of a clearly much beloved pet. With Howard & Co.'s Plattsburgh, NY printed on the back of the cabinet card all of