Two Finches and a Sparrow, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor dowels seeming poised to start flapping

seeming poised to start flapping and carry it away--and

and an especially apt for someone who lives in ship-building territory like I do

in all good ways

make me think late 19th c

Two Finches and a Sparrow, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor dowels seeming poised to start flappingA 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,