"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait school sampler and I especially love things

and I especially love things that are self-referential

an inside joke

plus a sort of a mohawk painted on top of the head

I just thought--think--it's beautiful

So reads the text on the back of this handheld amusement

"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait school sampler and I especially love thingsThis is to remember me The grass is green The rose is red This is left When I am ded. Signed what looks like Peter S. Burgard; I have turned up a Peter Gurgard born in 1822 in Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, married in 1850 in Erie, NY, which seems about right to me, period wise and in terms of the costumes here but I don't know for certain. There were a few scraps of notes included with it (see photos) noting it was purchased along with a 1829 fraktur