Charming and Naively Sophisticated Early-Mid 19th Century Fantasy Architecture Watercolor in Period Frame old school drawing The embroidery--hand-dyed silk thread on

The embroidery--hand-dyed silk thread on laid paper--is an early one

2" tall with tail x 2 1/4" l x 15/16" d

and gave a poof of white tail

which add up to a great patina

Charming and Naively Sophisticated Early-Mid 19th Century Fantasy Architecture Watercolor in Period Frame old school drawing The embroidery--hand-dyed silk thread onA little glare in the photos here and the colors are richer in hand. This is a very lovely earlyish 19th century naive watercolor, and exactly the kind of small painting one wants to live with I think a dreamy sort of landscape centered on a piece (or series of pieces of) what I take for fantasy architecture s. (And really, what a curious 18th 19th century folk art phenomenon "fantasy" architecture paintings were often executed as sandpaper drawings,