Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child american folk art architecture clear and crisp

clear and crisp

both in and of itself as a stunning photograph

and some clouding to the original mirror

but have it on fairly good authority that these likely date to the 1880s or so

Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child american folk art architecture clear and crispI'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