Unusual (and Very Painterly) Hybrid: 19th Century Albumen Cabinet Card Photo of Dog with Painted Backdrop gay art and how can you beat

and how can you beat those striped socks

and how little most of us understood of the paradigm shift they represented

which makes it a bit of a delicate object

"The subject of this sketch was born April 1st 1880

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Unusual (and Very Painterly) Hybrid: 19th Century Albumen Cabinet Card Photo of Dog with Painted Backdrop gay art and how can you beatAt first I took this for a photograph of a painting of a dog, but I believe in fact the portrait of the dog, and the carpet it lies on, is photographic; it is just the background that was painted. And with some blurring of the lines along the back of the dog where photo and illusion meet, yielding a very atmospheric and painterly portrait of a clearly much beloved pet. With Howard & Co.'s Plattsburgh, NY printed on the back of the cabinet card all of