A Gentle Hand (and Short Breeches!) 19th C. Ambrotype of 18th Century Painting in Half Case woman with long fingernails 5 1/8" long x 1

5 1/8" long x 1 1/2" wide x 2 7/8" tall

which pulls out easily through the tiny hole at the center of the lid

The whole thing was stained and mounted to a wooden panel

published in 1883

16" l x 4 3/4" d x 6 1/8" t

A Gentle Hand (and Short Breeches!) 19th C. Ambrotype of 18th Century Painting in Half Case woman with long fingernails 5 1/8" long x 1I wish I knew more about this one an ambrotype, found in MA, of an earlier painting, which looks Revolutionary War era to me (and him a bit like John Adams!), at the center of which is the gesture of her hand on his cuff with painted gold wedding band on her finger though I must say it looks a bit to me like the fingers of her other hand, resting in her lap, are crossed! (And the gesture itself feels, perhaps cynically on my part, like a bit of a