Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 McCoy Drake to a Pearl Ward

Drake to a Pearl Ward Sawyer in 1906

it was done on thin wove paper

and heavy enough to be stable but easy to move around

padlock is a pretty rare one

with irregularities native to form and glaze

Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 McCoy Drake to a Pearl WardThis is one of three watercolors of roses I purchased together, I believe all found together too, perhaps done at the same time by three different members of a family, or maybe more likely schoolmates. I like them individually in different ways, but also together, variations on a theme becoming in a sense portraits of their makers. This one, the most "primitive" of the three I'd say, with shield at upper left, is signed (maybe with the named of a