Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child male bust but this one features adults

but this one features adults only (who feel quite Gorey-esque to me)

Drawing itself shows small scattered stains but is overall in very good condition

not presenting issues at all

great structural condition and heavy for his size

Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child male bust but this one features adultsI've always looking for antique photos and anything really made better by the chance effects of time, and this is very much one of those. I believe originally the cheeks of this mother and child were given a pink hand tinted blush, but over time that blush turned to near black, now looking like dramatic blemishes or diseases of the skin, which seem as if threatening to overtake their faces entirely. The result makes me think of Hawthorne's The