19.00 USD
And where is the girl who looks after the sheep?
Why, under the haystack, of course!
Wonderful card, which although very tame by today's standards, we will file under the heading of "risque" by those antiquated standards of yesterday. We particularly love the use of red coloring, casually splashed onto the image surface in an almost impressionistic fashion. Wonderful early postcard, circa 1890s/1900.
We originally believed this to be a hand-tinted photolithograph, But are pretty certain this is rather a heliotype. Relatively close, but one of the major differences is that the plate produced during the heliotype process allows for a maximum of only about 2000 runs per image before it degrades (this was in the early 1900s) to the degree that a new plate must be produced. Also, rather than being hand-tinted, per se, layers of tint are applied during the printing process. If examined closely, the areas where heavier colored inks were overlaid onto thinner ones, is evident, but in "blocked" areas, rather than showing the sort of feathering that is often evident in the kind of hand-tinting by done by brush.
It took between one and two days for the chrome alum solution (a chief characteristic of the process) to dry and harden sufficiently onto the plate for printing, so it was a slow, and relatively low yield process, but as you can see, produced wonderful results.
This same model changes her costume for one of an Algerian belly dancer in another group of cards we just acquired. It makes us wonder if both series might have been photographed on the same day. Please follow link below to see them!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/247653336/risque-french-dancing-girl-1-with-parrot?ref=shop_home_feat_4
Please examine our high res scans for detail.
Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.
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