Unusual (and Very Painterly) Hybrid: 19th Century Albumen Cabinet Card Photo of Dog with Painted Backdrop gay art Satisfyingly smooth surface

Satisfyingly smooth surface

a few in sanguine

and how can you beat those striped socks

making it feel a bit like a vision from another world and imparting this owl with something of a surreal feel--or perhaps better to say amplifying it

and made of papier-mache lacquered black with gold

Unusual (and Very Painterly) Hybrid: 19th Century Albumen Cabinet Card Photo of Dog with Painted Backdrop gay art Satisfyingly smooth surfaceAt 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