Intense Looking Woman with Lighthouse, Beautifully Spare and Stark Antique Tintype mournful maybe used for hitching

maybe used for hitching

Putting it back together once taken apart takes some thought

Writing along the bottom a bit faded but readable

It seems possible that there was once something behind the cutout but I don't know

Closed: 7 3/4" x 2"

Intense Looking Woman with Lighthouse, Beautifully Spare and Stark Antique Tintype mournful maybe used for hitchingThis is the sort of tintype portrait I love most: stark looking subject, spare (and also quite painterly) sort of image. Here with just the edge of a lighthouse (a painted backdrop I assume) making it into the frame. Some sort of apron (?) stretched across her lap, wedding ring exposed on those long fingers, cloth in the other hand. She looks a bit like a bird, and also makes me think of both Emily Dickinson and Georgia O'Keefe. 3 3 16" x 2 3 8".