Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card PET pick Image size: 7 1/2 x

Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 5/8

Seems a good metaphor for many a situation

I was not prepared for the scale and weight--and terrific presence

and with a slide opening on one end and an inset piece at the bottom

the box is double hinged

Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card PET pick Image size: 7 1/2 xMaybe not exactly my typical style, but this (and a second by the same maker listed separately) is amazing hard to understand scale from photos, but it took me getting out a magnifier to confirm it as a watercolor rather than a print, so finely and precisely executed. Perhaps there were once four of them, representing the four seasons? This mother, dangling grapes just out of reach of her child, a bounty of fruit beside her, seems to suggest summer,