Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card to hangdarning With clear age

With clear age

the wood is worn smooth with a bit of a sheen

I found this collage at the flea market and really loved the juxtaposition of the cutout fish (I believe painted on photo paper

" "sensibility how charming

and what looks to be a giant matchstick (

Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card to hangdarning With clear ageMaybe 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,