Women with Flag
SOLD March 2006 |
Quarter plate ambrotype of four women and an American flag ca. 1860s. Housed in a full pressed-paper case with separated spine. With applied tinting in red.
A Gone-With-The-Wind like image of four attractive and slightly disheveled women, one of them draped in a large flag. Some red coloring has been applied to their cheeks as well as to the stripes of their nation's emblem.
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