Red House, Blue Sky, Atmospheric Folk Art Roof Slate Painting ruby ambrotype The shapes and positioning of

The shapes and positioning of the jointed legs make for a luxuriously long lion stride

--but I'm sure glad someone saved it

especially things like initials carved in the frames and old make-do repairs

but most of these temple toys date from the late 1800s through the early 1900s and I would guess the same on this one

no cracks in the slate

Red House, Blue Sky, Atmospheric Folk Art Roof Slate Painting ruby ambrotype The shapes and positioning ofI know from the dealer I purchased this from that it came out a house the specific house portrayed in Vermont, though I am forgetting the name of the town. I love a house portrait, and am fairly sure the slate this house was drawn painted on was salvaged from the house's roof (there's some old hardened tar on the the back) and the manner of it makes it feel less as if rendered and more as if it just magically emerged! With the framework of the house