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Estimate: $ 9,000 - $ 12,000
(TINTYPES) American portrait collection with more than 115 tintypes that includes a man and woman posing in front of their house, and studies of gymnasts, artists, military portraits, tradesmen, bicyclists, theatrical performers, pretty women, children with their toys, and stogie-smoking laborers. Also includes images of male affection, caricatures, and much more. Whole-plates (5), half plates (9), quarter plates (6), and sixth plates; several are hand-tinted; 3 in half cases and 22 are framed. 1860s-1880s
A panorama of images depicting Americans of all stripes and sizes, at work and play. The tintype afforded a more casual type of iconography in which the exposure times were greatly shortened, and therefore subjects took advantage of the opportunity to be themselves. Thus, there's a playfulness associated with many of the portraits that is typified by the more obvious theatrical portraits but may also be seen in the series of images of male gymnasts, where one man is sitting in another's lap, or the altered scenes of an artist who is shown with and without a beard, which highlight the invitation to his exhibition.
Featured images include: a man on horseback, men displaying weapons, a physically challenged young woman holding a fan, musicians and their instruments, croquet players, a policeman and other occupational studies, a caricature, a post-mortem of a baby, a couple posing in a photo studio, First Communion portraits, a boy playing a drum, a clown and his dapper companions, a couple of cross-dressers, drunken revellers, a barber about to cut a client's hair, a baseball player, a chef, a house painter, a girl posing with her life-size ragdoll, bakers displaying bread, a beautifully dressed cadet, dolls holding smaller dolls, a seaman, and more.
There are multiple images of children set amidst a misshapen dark cloth (undoubtedly a mother who's casually draped in fabric and ready to calm her restless subject). Whole-plates include a dark-complexioned woman in a frilly dress, two fashionably attired young sisters, a rosy-cheeked child, and a mother and daughter, and the man and woman in front of their home. Each is hand-colored or tinted and three are in period frames.
