Giant Dog, Family, Women in Canoe - Double-Sided Watercolor carlotta huse and for the Biedermeier type

and for the Biedermeier type china doll that rests in the crook of her arm

is one of her finds

with fantastically stylized forehead tapering into wonderful almost-trunk like nose that feels as if shielding those deeply recessed eyes from the world

9 5/8" x 7" sight

This is an old Lucky Strikes cigarettes tin

Giant Dog, Family, Women in Canoe - Double-Sided Watercolor carlotta huse and for the Biedermeier typeThis and one other today by the same maker the last of a handful I've had by that unknown person, which were salvaged from a large sketchbook that was pulled from the flooded, over full storage of a longtime collector. It's tragic to think of all that was lost (I understand the oversized sketchbook contained some 200 pages of drawings), with the few saved suggesting it would have blown my mind!!!! This is the largest of the salvaged drawings and I