Black Veined White, Elegant 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Drawing opthomology though "9 Years Old" is

though "9 Years Old" is very clear--and clearly was not referring to the little girl (who might have felt a bit secondary to this beloved dog

(reference photo included

And all the better that it sits atop a four-hole ocarina

I see no evidence that this horse was once part of a pull toy or had a rocking base

but rather of the original

Black Veined White, Elegant 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Drawing opthomology though "9 Years Old" isOne more beautiful butterfly today, this purchased from the same dealer as the other butterfly watercolor I've listed, though I'm not certain if by the same maker; I do know this one came from a series of fine watercolor renderings of different species, here the "Black Veined White" butterfly as penned at lower left. Exquisitely elegan and graceful I think, with the green stems seeming as much to suggest a path of flight as to describe a momentary