1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor antique engravings Don't miss the jointed shoulders

Don't miss the jointed shoulders

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

I think this carved wooden whimsy chain could actually be put to work hauling something

One small well done repair to one arm

which makes it feel all the more like a small modernist sculpture

1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor antique engravings Don't miss the jointed shouldersI 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,