Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype brass stencil outfit and especially what I take

and especially what I take for a sharp featured little head and shoulders made up of tiny dots at left

Reynolds it looks to me--gathering and arranging  these shells in order to draw them

I'm not quite sure how all it was used that yielded this incredible surface

or examples I haven't seen before

which seems rather aligned with his youthfulness and rather searching expression (and I must say that without the red robe and tassel

Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype brass stencil outfit and especially what I takeI keep saying, and will keep saying, to me there is just something about a good tintype that is like nothing else, making the subjects feel so present and right there, and often feeling both transcendent of time and very contemporary. This one has a bit of a Diane Arbus feeling about it to me, with such striking, distinctive and expressive faces on these two, a grandmother and grandson perhaps, who it feels like a street photographer might just have