1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor antique engravings One small well done repair

One small well done repair to one arm

He was  constructed as a jig figure

which would originally have housed a combination of undivided cubes and others divided in halves or quarters

7" x 4 1/4" x 1/2"

1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor antique engravings One small well done repairI find this Fraktur type watercolor an extremely lovely thing, with its pale pink roses looking a bit like puffs of popcorn amid this graceful and profuse sprawl of green leaves and thorns and buds. Made all the better by the E. B. V monogram at the base of the stem, rendered in graphite against a pale yellow banner, with little stars between each letter. The page clearly came from E. B. V's scrapbook, with a handwritten poem (Remembrance) dated 1848,