Keeping Watch, Late Victorian Painting of Young Beauty on Door Japanese toad Oil on masonite

Oil on masonite

via which the interior compartment is revealed

Photo measures 4 9/16” x 3 7/16

and the arts and crafts green and bright white combo

This lot includes five black ink drawings which range in side from 9 1/2" x 8 to 19" x 12"

Keeping Watch, Late Victorian Painting of Young Beauty on Door Japanese toad Oil on masoniteQuite a beauty, and beautifully painted, but what really makes this for me is her having been painted on the central panel of a much used large cabinet (I believe) door. As such, her looking over her shoulder pose seems very much one of waiting and keeping watch and to have opened this door would have been to directly meet her gaze. (To me she looks a bit weary of it all, too, as if thinking "you again?") She seems to me much more of the sort to have