c. Mid 19th Century Hudson River School Oil on Canvas Landscape Fragment, Framed as Found antique advertising photo It is an early one

It is an early one

but I do think they claimed a pretty great phrase

The fancy outfit and Italianate setting make me think he may have been channeling Romeo

It seems from some research there are a few partial sets like this out there but I can't believe there were very many made as it would have been quite a laborious process: weighing nearly half a pound each

made with real slate that retains a sense of many many years of school lessons performed across its surface--and I believe this is an especially old one (19th c I think)

c. Mid 19th Century Hudson River School Oil on Canvas Landscape Fragment, Framed as Found antique advertising photo It is an early oneVery lovely and very transportive! This is a framed fragment of a Hudson River School painting, oil on canvas, mid 19th century I believe, framed here under glass, as found. I do believe it is the Hudson here, and with a view to what I presume are the Catskill mountains in the distance. And with a bit of architecture tucked in under the soaring trees at near left, as typical: the American landscape as a pastoral setting, where human beings and nature