Intense Looking Woman with Lighthouse, Beautifully Spare and Stark Antique Tintype mournful Putting it back together once

Putting it back together once taken apart takes some thought

and the birds facing in every direction

Finding these was for me total delight

maybe used for hitching

Closed: 7 3/4" x 2"

Intense Looking Woman with Lighthouse, Beautifully Spare and Stark Antique Tintype mournful Putting it back together onceThis is the sort of tintype portrait I love most: stark looking subject, spare (and also quite painterly) sort of image. Here with just the edge of a lighthouse (a painted backdrop I assume) making it into the frame. Some sort of apron (?) stretched across her lap, wedding ring exposed on those long fingers, cloth in the other hand. She looks a bit like a bird, and also makes me think of both Emily Dickinson and Georgia O'Keefe. 3 3 16" x 2 3 8".