Red Astrican Apple, 19th Century Theorem Watercolor with Printed Text painting on lid with a face to match

with a face to match

but happily they're still around

and I imagine once housed in an oval frame like a silhoutte

Childs Art Gallery was famous for artistic portraiture

All those black dots against the glossy white of the celluloid (thin but hard and very durable) really does it for me

Red Astrican Apple, 19th Century Theorem Watercolor with Printed Text painting on lid with a face to matchI can never say no apples and a bunch of grapes today too; this is one of three later 19th c. theorem style watercolors of fruit I've just listed, found together in New Hampshire. I've bought and sold a number of watercolors of specific fruit specimens done in this manner looking almost like airbrush paintings (and indeed these were likely done by blowing the color with a glass straw, then hand painting the details.) With printed text identifying the