Baccante dell'Ercolano, Much Handled 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Watercolor vintage plaque so maybe good for a

so maybe good for a box of matches

Just my sort of doodling

And I believe it is postmarked 1911

a ship in a bottle the making of which I can completely understand

Baccante dell'Ercolano, Much Handled 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Watercolor vintage plaque so maybe good for aI believe this 19th century Italian gouache watercolor was someone's Grand Tour purchase; some notations in graphite at the top of the paper seem to have recorded the date of purchase and what was paid, but it's a but hard to decipher. (I think maybe the year of purchase was 1895, though I believe the painting is likely a bit older than that.) This allegorical "baccante" (follower of Bacchus) with basket on her head (filled with grapes I believe) and