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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alec Sutton, post: 34809, member: 80&quot;]It appears to me oil on academy board, correct for the period. The brushstrokes are present, to my eye.</p><p><br /></p><p>The stain, probably moisture induced, would likely not exhibit thus on stretched canvas, but could well do so on board. Academy board type boards, commonly used by 19th C. artists, were, after all, just highly compressed paper treated with primer and other substances.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m unaware of a period printing technology capable of producing a perfect continuous tone image like the OP&#039;s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course one must always reserve final opinion until examining the actual object.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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