Lovely Late 19th C Floral Watercolor Friendship Picture lady liberty likely from the ink on

likely from the ink on the back of an adjacent board upon which it was stacked

He spent almost all of his school years in Manhattan--P

and she is definitely one with whom I think I'd hold a lively ongoing conversation

A bit of research leads me to believe that most if not all were made from a kit of Strombecker Steam Locomotives dating to the 1920s or 30s

and like a drawing in space--very sweet and certainly one of a kind

Lovely Late 19th C Floral Watercolor Friendship Picture lady liberty likely from the ink onI find myself looking a lot at antique floral botanical watercolors these days, as who doesn't need little doses of loveliness wherever we can find them? I really love the delicacy of this one, combining rose and rosebuds, pansies, and forget me nots which, together with the text below it, in Dutch I believe, make for quite a sweet token of fondness, sent from one friend to another. (The text may be an excerpt from a poem, but I've found it a bit of a