19th C Large Scrapbook Page Composition with Very Fine Botanical Watercolor at Center marble dust drawing with a great patina of

with a great patina of stains and scuffs and paint spatters

) ViewMaster in the 1940s

I think this is tin glaze on a red clay body

what a couple of characters

Wonderfully graphic and really fabulous I think

19th C Large Scrapbook Page Composition with Very Fine Botanical Watercolor at Center marble dust drawing with a great patina ofI've used a magnifier to confirm that the flowers at the center of this scrapbook page are indeed done in watercolor so finely it is quite difficult to imagine how, but so it is glorious! That panel certainly deserves to be at the center, but there are delights everywhere here, with collaged images and clippings and very carefully handwritten text all carefully arranged and commenting on one another. I especially like the "bottle imp" at lower left.