Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card to hangdarning the wood is worn smooth

the wood is worn smooth with a bit of a sheen

but sound and stable and not very fragile

8 1/4" x 8 1/4" framed

and what looks to be a giant matchstick (

" "sensibility how charming

Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card to hangdarning the wood is worn smoothMaybe not exactly my typical style, but this (and a second by the same maker listed separately) is amazing hard to understand scale from photos, but it took me getting out a magnifier to confirm it as a watercolor rather than a print, so finely and precisely executed. Perhaps there were once four of them, representing the four seasons? This mother, dangling grapes just out of reach of her child, a bounty of fruit beside her, seems to suggest summer,