Young Woman at Window, Fine c. 1840 Watercolor in Period Lemon Gold Frame original game of sentences with very light wear and

with very light wear and minor aging/ warping to the cardboard roof

and of a great scale at 6 inches tall and long

beyond politics

still showing a pattern of little flowers all along the horseshoe

Young Woman at Window, Fine c. 1840 Watercolor in Period Lemon Gold Frame original game of sentences with very light wear andI've got a penchant for antique portraits of young woman posed at thresholds of sorts here a lovely young woman in blue at a window, looking out as they seem very much about passage from youth to adulthood, innocence to knowing, etc., and often a certain longing in both directions at once. This watercolor, c. 1840s I believe, is finely done very much with the precision of a miniature, though it is not that small with the handling of the scarf draped