Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card wood and wire trap and based on a bit

and based on a bit of research I believe most likely made by James Fallows & Sons of Philadelphia

General wear to the box and light wear to surface of blocks

and I love the idea of a "Deposite No

And with both pineapples and bananas both metaphors for hospitality or "welcome" in their special own ways:) The longer I spend looking at this one

in the mid 1800s I believe

Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card wood and wire trap and based on a bitMaybe not exactly my typical style, but this (and a second by the same maker listed separately) is amazing hard to understand scale from photos, but it took me getting out a magnifier to confirm it as a watercolor rather than a print, so finely and precisely executed. Perhaps there were once four of them, representing the four seasons? This mother, dangling grapes just out of reach of her child, a bounty of fruit beside her, seems to suggest summer,