1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor antique engravings clear and very readable

clear and very readable

to my sensibility

Don't miss the jointed shoulders

this would work pretty much anywhere

He was  constructed as a jig figure

1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor antique engravings clear and very readableI find this Fraktur type watercolor an extremely lovely thing, with its pale pink roses looking a bit like puffs of popcorn amid this graceful and profuse sprawl of green leaves and thorns and buds. Made all the better by the E. B. V monogram at the base of the stem, rendered in graphite against a pale yellow banner, with little stars between each letter. The page clearly came from E. B. V's scrapbook, with a handwritten poem (Remembrance) dated 1848,