1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor wounded lion Young John Enman

Young John Enman

Plenty of toning

geometrically shaped logos

Surface aging as evident but completely indestructible

mostly just light scratching to surfaces

1848 Pennsylvania Folk Art Roses on Vine Scrapbook Page Watercolor wounded lion Young John EnmanI find this Fraktur type watercolor an extremely lovely thing, with its pale pink roses looking a bit like puffs of popcorn amid this graceful and profuse sprawl of green leaves and thorns and buds. Made all the better by the E. B. V monogram at the base of the stem, rendered in graphite against a pale yellow banner, with little stars between each letter. The page clearly came from E. B. V's scrapbook, with a handwritten poem (Remembrance) dated 1848,