Keeping Watch, Late Victorian Painting of Young Beauty on Door handmade toys Good condition with some loss

Good condition with some loss to the top edge of backing paper on his portrait

that he was quite a practiced Spencerian calligrapher

I could have dusted it a bit before photographing but neglected to

documented with magnification

but now I am wondering if it might not be a Styracosaurus or some other one horned dinosaur

Keeping Watch, Late Victorian Painting of Young Beauty on Door handmade toys Good condition with some lossQuite a beauty, and beautifully painted, but what really makes this for me is her having been painted on the central panel of a much used large cabinet (I believe) door. As such, her looking over her shoulder pose seems very much one of waiting and keeping watch and to have opened this door would have been to directly meet her gaze. (To me she looks a bit weary of it all, too, as if thinking "you again?") She seems to me much more of the sort to have