Houses, Trees, Church: Early 1800s Notebook Page with Watercolors in Double Sided Frame des moines lusty + awkward

lusty + awkward

it seems well suited to house a lion or tiger behind those screens (though would also make a great cricket cage

) but they could also anchor a mantle pretty well or lend a certain festiveness to most any table

the combination of corrugation and incising on smoothed areas of this one--the latter on the on the upper half of the body--make me think it may date toward the later part of the period

8 1/8” w x 8 1/4” t

Houses, Trees, Church: Early 1800s Notebook Page with Watercolors in Double Sided Frame des moines lusty + awkwardThis is one of three double sided pages from an early 19th c. Newburyport, MA school notebook I'm listing clearly the work of one person which came from the collection of longtime New England collectors Bev and John Titus. I love early watercolored notebook drawings and diagrams just about as much as anything in the world, so swooned when I saw these. This is the most subtle of the three, but the one that most rewards close looking, completely