Baby in Christening Dress with Elaborately Hidden Mother Antique TIntype house shaped box I don't care a bit

I don't care a bit

framed by green and black checkered head cloth

but I find it satisfying in the same sort of way

The details--nothing more than is needed but is exactly what is--lend him a buttoned up suit

Spruce gum

Baby in Christening Dress with Elaborately Hidden Mother Antique TIntype house shaped box I don't care a bitI presume it is a mother hidden somewhere there under this wide and ambling drape of cloth an unusual expanse as far as I've seen. What I really like here is the play between that horizontal stretch of draping, almost like a landscape of dark cloth, and long, vertical drape of this child's white (christening?) gown, falling all the way to the ground. And then of course that baby's wide eyed face at the center of it all, looking simultaneously relaxed