Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem embossed frame I don't believe much older

I don't believe much older than that

this one Murray's English Grammar Simplified by Allen Fish

I've learned that very finely crafted wooden skeletons were first created during the Edo era in Japan (late 1700s/early 1800s)

with excellent richness and sharpness to the transfer

5 7/8" x 3 1/2" and in very good condition

Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem embossed frame I don't believe much olderJust lovely, I could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day, to my eye so lush and radiant and almost electric feeling. Contemporary feeling too; the concentration of color along the hard edges (created using stencils, and blowing paint with a glass straw), as on the rose petals here, always makes me think of the paintings of Roger Brown. I know from the other two I found this one with, clearly by the same maker, that it dates to the late