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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 309040, member: 33"]So maybe just a move [edited from "ploy"] by the seller to add some interest?</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll say that the image appears to be from later than the 1860s. That decade saw the first images on paper, which is what that one appears to be. However, they were usually taken in a studio, or if outdoors were normally of buildings or architecture and/or scenery. It would have been highly unusual for a portrait photo in the 1860s to be taken outdoors, as that one appears to be. And even if taken outdoors they were posed more formally than that. The child's clothing doesn't look quite right to me for the mid-19th century, either. It looks like early 20th to me, although could also be late 19th.</p><p><br /></p><p>And by the way, I<i> do</i> like your painting!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 309040, member: 33"]So maybe just a move [edited from "ploy"] by the seller to add some interest? I'll say that the image appears to be from later than the 1860s. That decade saw the first images on paper, which is what that one appears to be. However, they were usually taken in a studio, or if outdoors were normally of buildings or architecture and/or scenery. It would have been highly unusual for a portrait photo in the 1860s to be taken outdoors, as that one appears to be. And even if taken outdoors they were posed more formally than that. The child's clothing doesn't look quite right to me for the mid-19th century, either. It looks like early 20th to me, although could also be late 19th. And by the way, I[I] do[/I] like your painting!![/QUOTE]
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