For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows amateur art with what appears to be

with what appears to be “MM”  “’78” and VT

it feels to me as if it might have lived in a holy space

I've used a magnifier to confirm that the flowers at the center of this scrapbook page are indeed done in watercolor--so finely it is quite difficult to imagine how

but comes I believe from the Tonala region in Jalisco and resembles the work of Carlos Villanueva

For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows amateur art with what appears to beFor Grandma, from Allie, Christmas 1878: a very carefully pin prick drawn rocking horse, from an era when rocking horses were highly prized creatures! For me this is very much about the whole bright and proud package: the very carefully cut fancy decorative border to the cream board, and to the blue board behind it, and these perfectly tied ribbon bows at the corners, and then the note on the back, too; feels to me like the incarnate of what one (me)