Stern Man with Bible Against Absurd Backdrop, Antique Tintype Portrait watercolor illustration and somewhat smaller than this

and somewhat smaller than this

late 19th/early 20th c I believe

At 13" inches across it is not large

This handmade model Buffalo train station was surely once part of a model train set up

Stern Man with Bible Against Absurd Backdrop, Antique Tintype Portrait watercolor illustration and somewhat smaller than thisWhen I look at photographs it is pretty much all about content, and I do like to imagine what was going on at the moment a photo was taken. This tintype is beautifully crisp and clear, but what I love about it is the absurd juxtaposition between this very sober looking man holding up his bible and the almost Rococo studio backdrop with painted roses (one imagines they were pink) arching over him from one side and emerging again just behind his right