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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 21269, member: 33&quot;]I&#039;m thinking this might be what is known as a crayon portrait or solar enlargement. These were popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. It would be an enlarged photo, painted over. Many of them are not as nicely and completely painted as this. </p><p><br /></p><p>One reason I&#039;m thinking this is on the lower left of the picture it appears there might be an unpainted part of his lower arm, that would show the photographic part.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you scroll about halfway down this interesting article you can see some explanation, and an example: <a href="http://brightbytes.com/woodward.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://brightbytes.com/woodward.html" rel="nofollow">http://brightbytes.com/woodward.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Fig[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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