Portrait of Man, Child and Prized Milking Goat Just Milked, Giorgio Conrad, Naples, Italy, c. 1860s CDV art class exercise of this antique ledger sold

of this antique ledger sold me on it before I even opened it

what a sweet young man this Antoni must have been

) Mortise and tenon construction

He died of AIDS in 1986

and I'll scoop it every time

Portrait of Man, Child and Prized Milking Goat Just Milked, Giorgio Conrad, Naples, Italy, c. 1860s CDV art class exercise of this antique ledger soldA gorgeous albumen photo CDV, very tonally rich and capturing every detail with clarity, down to every spatter and splatter covering the floor! And what a trio of faces, among which this goat is clearly the star having been milked just before the photo was taken, with the man holding a jar full. Feels very Italian indeed, taken by Giorgio Conrad, Napoli, printed on reverse, c. 1860s. Conrad (1827 1889) examples of whose carte de visite (some hand