1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor napier powder-lacquered black steel

powder-lacquered black steel

Signed on the bottom in Inuktitut with a disc number

" And then still later

but most of these temple toys date from the late 1800s through the early 1900s and I would guess the same on this one

The overview photo gives a pretty good sense of color I think

1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor napier powder-lacquered black steelI 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,