Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem vintage advertising sample and which appear all done

and which appear all done by the same person

is a boating scene

I find the needlework really amazing--and looking closely

very delicate piece of seaweed

which I think only makes it better

Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem vintage advertising sample and which appear all doneJust lovely, I could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day, to my eye so lush and radiant and almost electric feeling. Contemporary feeling too; the concentration of color along the hard edges (created using stencils, and blowing paint with a glass straw), as on the rose petals here, always makes me think of the paintings of Roger Brown. I know from the other two I found this one with, clearly by the same maker, that it dates to the late