Baby in Christening Dress with Elaborately Hidden Mother Antique TIntype dry measure sewn of (now perfectly faded)

sewn of (now perfectly faded) light denim with a red fabric lining

and perfectly restrained

or bridge

Each measures 8" t x 1 5/8" d

Baby in Christening Dress with Elaborately Hidden Mother Antique TIntype dry measure sewn of (now perfectly faded)I presume it is a mother hidden somewhere there under this wide and ambling drape of cloth an unusual expanse as far as I've seen. What I really like here is the play between that horizontal stretch of draping, almost like a landscape of dark cloth, and long, vertical drape of this child's white (christening?) gown, falling all the way to the ground. And then of course that baby's wide eyed face at the center of it all, looking simultaneously relaxed