Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child male bust I think knowing the lyrics

I think knowing the lyrics to the song rather amplifies the (rather urgent) empathy one feels for this little doggy

a “very greedy woman“

not presenting issues at all

behind glass: 15 9/16" x 12 3/4"

Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child male bust I think knowing the lyricsI've always looking for antique photos and anything really made better by the chance effects of time, and this is very much one of those. I believe originally the cheeks of this mother and child were given a pink hand tinted blush, but over time that blush turned to near black, now looking like dramatic blemishes or diseases of the skin, which seem as if threatening to overtake their faces entirely. The result makes me think of Hawthorne's The