Stern Man with Bible Against Absurd Backdrop, Antique Tintype Portrait british math I especially like the pencil

I especially like the pencil drawn eye on the wooden side of this guy

who also looks a but as if she might be wearing an officer's cap

16 1/16" l x 3 13/16" t

which looks likely to be adhered to board and is not behind glass in the frame

a tiny fold in the bottom left corner

Stern Man with Bible Against Absurd Backdrop, Antique Tintype Portrait british math I especially like the pencilWhen 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