Shower Me With Love Wonderfully Strange Old Bathing Beauty Rum Bottle late 1800s wooden crate Wilis’ name and the year

Wilis’ name and the year 1883 appears on one page of the sketcbook

A character for sure

is in excellent condition

2nd half of the 19th century I believe

Shower Me With Love Wonderfully Strange Old Bathing Beauty Rum Bottle late 1800s wooden crate Wilis’ name and the yearWhat a weird one! I love it for its strangeness, and how almost demonic she looks, as if having already imbibed a good deal of rum, and with this little fox gazing up at her seeming a bit afraid of what she might do! The wear to the surface just enhances the effect, perhaps making one want to swear off rum altogether! (And it also makes me imagine that whatever rum once filled this bottle had to have been very much a home brew, a la bathtub gin!) 7 1