Lovely Girl and Her Lovely Doll, Antique Tintype Under Glass in Blue Velvet Frame hammered but it immediately crumbled in

but it immediately crumbled in my hands as soon as I touched it--not too surprising as I'd think this is well over a hundred years old

as are the six sections of fencing

Dows' biography is fascinating

many it appears having been observed first hand (under a microscope) though various dissections

but exactly the right thing to give this drawing a narrative arc

Lovely Girl and Her Lovely Doll, Antique Tintype Under Glass in Blue Velvet Frame hammered but it immediately crumbled inI've always got an eye out for old photos of girls and their dolls in part because I love seeing the far ranging dolls themselves, and the ways they are held or otherwise situated, but even more so because I think the intensity of bonds between children and objects, and between girls (primarily, and certainly in large part because acceptably) and their dolls, is a rich and complex and interesting subject, and also poignant for those of us who as