Judith Flowers (?) Dide 1825 Aged 21 Years, Mounted 19th C. Photo of Portrait Painting

Regular price $45.00

I choose to read her name as Judith Flowers, though I may be a letter or two or three off! Indeed the handwritten text alone here was enough to sell me: "dide 1825 21 years."  But then the mounted albumen photo, of this marvelous folk art portrait painting (the painting certainly dating to just a year or two before here death in 1825) of our Judith, a beauty, wearing a very fine lace collar, brooch at her neck and earring dangling from her one visible ear. You know I love a photograph of an earlier painting, transferring one form of likeness/representation into another so as to preserve and carry it forward--and I think this a very charming example. 

4 1/8" x 2 1/2". C. 1860s-70s I believe, photograph of a painting dating to the 1820s or so. Mounted to irregularly trimmed, plain white card, with text written in black ink. Some toning to photo and general edge wear and a few tears to the card, as detailed.