Boy with Dog 19th Century Folk Art "Sandpaper" Painting filagree hairpin accomplishing absolutely nothing

accomplishing absolutely nothing

with especially nice profile views showing strong jawline and high cheekbones

cattails or tall grasses

though someone would need to be pretty special to deserve one of these

Boy with Dog 19th Century Folk Art "Sandpaper" Painting filagree hairpin accomplishing absolutely nothingThis marvelous thing is an antique "sandpaper painting" a technique popular in the mid 19th century, of creating charcoal drawings on paper coated with marble dust, which creates a surface with a fine grit like sandpaper. These are a pretty fascinating genre, typically monochromatic and most often depicting Hudson River landscapes, though one occasionally finds portraits and examples incorporating color, like this one. These most often were done by