Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler carved wooden bowl I really love this little

I really love this little watercolor

I know from the seller in Virginia I purchased this from that it came from the personal collection of a senior curator at the Smithsonian who died about 15 years ago

All in photos included

and seems to rest at a weight a bit to the left of zero--but it's still a great little object

A simple but very nicely done old whimsy chain

Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler carved wooden bowl I really love this littlePhotos don't do much justice to this one a fight with glare and so not especially well lit when I was shooting it but hopefully details give a decent sense. Found in Pennsylvania this summer, it is a very early 1800s penmanship exercise, executed across a two page laid paper folio, in a roughly period frame, as found. And I must say the Viva La Plume in red inked fraktur lettering at top pretty much sold me right away! Then two main passages,