Woman with Cross and Blue Velvet Cape, 19th C Watercolor Portrait in Period Frame brown horse or just a few little

or just a few little treasures

Stamped ''EWA'' and "Made in'Vienna

with glazes --one a painterly brown and dark indigo

and indeed have learned they are pretty rare--and this set all the rarer for being double nines rather than double sixes--and all 55 of them are here

which in the case of this one I don't think detract at all

Woman with Cross and Blue Velvet Cape, 19th C Watercolor Portrait in Period Frame brown horse or just a few littleThe more time I spend with this portrait the more I love it, and love her a bit of a homely woman, perhaps, who doesn't look especially glad to be having her portrait painted, but such is clearly part of her lot in life as a woman of means, and she looks as if used to enduring things she doesn't especially like! 1820s 30s would be my guess based especially on her cape, bodice and hair style, beautifully housed in what I might guess is her original