Scroll and Crown Flower; Roses and Poem: Double-sided 1848 Theorem Watercolor applique a sweet little thing

a sweet little thing

What I know is that there was a good deal of interest in international costume in the early 1800s both in Europe and in American (I have a hand-colored deck of "cards" made from American bookplates c

all detailed in the little booklet

and one of them is carved wooden whimsies like this chain

Scroll and Crown Flower; Roses and Poem: Double-sided 1848 Theorem Watercolor applique a sweet little thingI could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day, so lush and radiant, with the combination of greens on the leaves here just electric! Those red blooms are pretty electric, too, identified as "Crown flower" below. I like the blankness of the scroll here, as if in perpetual wait for the right words. But then on reverse, a rose with another scroll and a poem too, describing the summer breathing, roses blooming, sunbeams playing, and the