Champion Grapes, 19th C. Watercolor Theorem with Printed Text German folk art animals A lovely thing to keep

A lovely thing to keep on or in one's desk in any case

Then this well bruised banana in front of them

but no notable holes

And to me it possesses about it the same sort of magical-ness as an ornate victorian wax diorama under glass I recently bought and sold--a sort of a miraculous world unto itself

Champion Grapes, 19th C. Watercolor Theorem with Printed Text German folk art animals A lovely thing to keepA lush looking bunch of grapes if I ever saw one. This is one of three later 19th c. theorem style watercolors of fruit I've just listed, found together in New Hampshire. I've bought and sold a number of watercolors of specific fruit specimens done in this manner looking almost like airbrush paintings (and indeed these were likely done by blowing the color with a glass straw, then hand painting the details.) With printed text identifying the specimens