Crooked House with Leaning Ladies on the Porch, Great Old Snapshot Photo Japanese clown hand-puppet A few last 19th century

A few last 19th century ink and watercolor butterfly drawings today from a portfolio of half a dozen or so I purchased from a favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley several weeks ago

Boston and I believe dates to the late 19th c

I'd be most inclined to nicely frame this

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

Crooked House with Leaning Ladies on the Porch, Great Old Snapshot Photo Japanese clown hand-puppet A few last 19th centuryThis one has brought universal pleasure to the few people I have shown it to since finding it digging through a pile at Brimfield; such a fun one and feels like a very true thing, too. Not sure whether the taker of the snapshot was aware they framing these women on their porch at an off kilter angle or whether it was a happy accident, but feels like the perfectly right way to portray this little house and the two of them in their hats and dresses, and