Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child house boat design I'm listing this antique embroidery

I'm listing this antique embroidery on linen pin cushion just as I found it -- stuck full of pins

belts and laces in the shoes

are fairly close

starting with what I find to be the striking beauty and evocativeness of the image

Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child house boat design I'm listing this antique embroideryI'm forever on the hunt of early photographs of folk art paintings, and photographs of photographs, too (representations of representations, emblematic of the emergence of new modes of representation, and also emblematic of the want to preserve pieces of the past and carry them forward) and I believe this is both a tintype copy I'd guess of an daguerreotype or ambrotype of a painting of a young child. [The other possibility I suppose would be a