1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor antique engravings which makes it feel all

which makes it feel all the more like a small modernist sculpture

clear and very readable

One small well done repair to one arm

which would originally have housed a combination of undivided cubes and others divided in halves or quarters

1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor antique engravings which makes it feel allI 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,