Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card wood and wire trap put your phone away

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which I'd guess dates to the mid 19th century or so

in the mid 1800s I believe

And with both pineapples and bananas both metaphors for hospitality or "welcome" in their special own ways:) The longer I spend looking at this one

I think it has the immediacy of a drawing

Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card wood and wire trap put your phone awayMaybe 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,