Late 1830s Naive British Ink and Watercolor: The Newfoundland Dog hand-forged axe it's about 18 1/2" long

it's about 18 1/2" long

with the ink clear and bold

I find the combination of lush

I'm pretty sure I remember this Edward Koren drawing from when it appeared as a  New Yorker cartoon some years ago

cracks or other issues at all that I can see

Late 1830s Naive British Ink and Watercolor: The Newfoundland Dog hand-forged axe it's about 18 1/2" longThis marvelous watercolor of "the newfoundland dog" is one of a group I purchased from a seller in England, which had previously been bound together as a booklet, and which I am listing individually. Like this dog, each depicts a working animal in a very iconic and really quite regal manner to my eye just about as good as it gets. The odd watercolor in the group, portraying Dick Turpin and The Brothers' Gibbet at Gonerby, was made after a famous print