Girl's Portrait On Paper - Print Or Drawing

This one is giving me hard time, cannot figure if it is print(enhanced print or photo) or original drawing?
Thanks

 

I've seen these before. It's a photo with added pencil detail.

 

if it's a photo, then how do you explain the arms and hands?

 

I was thinking about that. Kinda weird looking body.

 

Which US president does this unattractive child most resemble?

In my opinion, it is basically a photo. No one would deliberately draw a child that only a mother could tolerate, let alone love.

Of course, we may be seeing it on an off day.

 

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The right nostril looks weird ?

 

That's the chap he /she reminded me of.

 

It is what is known as a solar enlargement. Other names for these are crayon enlargement and crayon portrait. They are enlarged photographs that were printed fairly lightly and heavily embellished with other things (charcoal, pencil, paint, etc.).

These were extremely popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Here is some info:

19th century publication:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30248/30248-h/30248-h.htm

Another from 19th century:
http://books.google.com/books?id=JV...AEwBQ#v=onepage&q="solar enlargement"&f=false
http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=Solar_Enlarger

http://brightbytes.com/woodward.html

 

A lot of photos from this era look off-kilter. It was the camera angle. I've seen photos of people with heads too large for their bodies, wrong-size hands, etc.

 

Hi,
I have several of ancestors. The oldest is the smallest it was done in the 1840s it is of my great great grandmother and her two children. It is funny since I do not know which is my great grandfather or his sister, they are both dressed alike, he came here and she stayed in Alsace. No records have been found about her.
greg