A Mid-19thC English School Portrait of a Nude Gentleman sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope Condition is sound

Condition is sound

that both bulbs were blown together to keep moisture out of the bulbs and regulate the pressure within the bulb that varied the flow

Some were mass produced and often rather too sentimental

This is one funny dummy

A Mid-19thC English School Portrait of a Nude Gentleman sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope Condition is soundOrigin: English Period: Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 70 Height: 12 Width: 10 The half length portrait of a nude and bearded man with his arm held aloft, the whole on a moody earthy ground, painted in oils on canvas and remaining unframed and surviving from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The picture remains in original though unrestored condition with no over painting or restoration and a good deal of craquelure and some