Crooked House with Leaning Ladies on the Porch, Great Old Snapshot Photo Japanese clown hand-puppet and hand-painted brick pattern around

and hand-painted brick pattern around the base and for the two chimneys

I've spent a lot of time learning about Friedrich Froebel's (German

A few last 19th century ink and watercolor butterfly drawings today from a portfolio of half a dozen or so I purchased from a favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley several weeks ago

I'd be most inclined to nicely frame this

Crooked House with Leaning Ladies on the Porch, Great Old Snapshot Photo Japanese clown hand-puppet and hand-painted brick pattern aroundThis one has brought universal pleasure to the few people I have shown it to since finding it digging through a pile at Brimfield; such a fun one and feels like a very true thing, too. Not sure whether the taker of the snapshot was aware they framing these women on their porch at an off kilter angle or whether it was a happy accident, but feels like the perfectly right way to portray this little house and the two of them in their hats and dresses, and