Two Finches and a Sparrow, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor art nouveau woman both bolder and more precise

both bolder and more precise feeling and one can just feel the age of the paper even through the glass

includes 14 full colour plates

and the circles and center lines black

I am not sure what the seated boy and girl are doing

and there appears to be a cross below the smoking fellow in tie blowing smoke rings

Two Finches and a Sparrow, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor art nouveau woman both bolder and more preciseA few more today from a second batch of fine c. 1840s watercolors, which I went back to my source in Germany to scoop up after having sold the last several I had quickly. This is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, very finely executed ink and watercolor drawing, and my photos do it no justice; the color and detail is just glorious! One sees hand colored engravings in this manner (Bertuch et al) but quite a different thing in watercolor,