Victorian Art History Lesson - Collaged Prints of Paintings Amid Watercolored Ribbons Froebel gift 5 including this Mother Bird with

including this Mother Bird with Young

and then this slightly off curve at top and kicks up at either end of the wood

The splint ash visible on the bottom of the basket has been dyed a blue green

A little dryness/roughness around one edge of the petal (which I'm only noticing in magnified photos) and a mark from an an old sticker on one side of the post near the bottom but overall very good condition

with a penciled note on the back that it was the first painting done under the instruction of Augie Dea___

Victorian Art History Lesson - Collaged Prints of Paintings Amid Watercolored Ribbons Froebel gift 5 including this Mother Bird withThis just struck me as a curious thing, very Victorian, with a strange selection of copies of paintings (detailed in the handwritten annotations below) combined with this lovely watercolored ribbon like grid. I assume it was made with the educational purpose, but what a far cry from the crude flashcards of my history days! More on reverse, too. 11 1 2" x 9 1 8". Very good condition, clean and bright and bold. Watercolor, ink, and collage on cardstock