Two Finches and a Sparrow, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor art nouveau woman ) With sprawling starfish at

) With sprawling starfish at center

A tiny bit of breakage to the red dyed splints at the very center of the lid (I have yet to find one of these where that is not the case) but overall great condition

and there appears to be a cross below the smoking fellow in tie blowing smoke rings

I am not sure what the seated boy and girl are doing

and if one sets the saw to the far end of the log

Two Finches and a Sparrow, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor art nouveau woman ) With sprawling starfish atA few more today from a second batch of fine c. 1840s watercolors, which I went back to my source in Germany to scoop up after having sold the last several I had quickly. This is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, very finely executed ink and watercolor drawing, and my photos do it no justice; the color and detail is just glorious! One sees hand colored engravings in this manner (Bertuch et al) but quite a different thing in watercolor,