Very Very Last of the Old Birdlover's Watercolors: Hooded Merganser Massachusetts sampler and long arching tails

and long arching tails

I would guess early 20th century on this one

Really a sweet little piece

The Eliza Ann who did this one

creating by using stencils

Very Very Last of the Old Birdlover's Watercolors: Hooded Merganser Massachusetts sampler and long arching tailsTruly the very last few today from a great bunch of old naive watercolor of birds done by someone long ago who was quite serious about his birds! Each and every one of them a charmer I think, this one portraying a proud Hooded Merganser, with especially good hand painted attribution under the patch of blue water at bottom left. 7 1 16" x 5 1 6" and in good condition, with a bit of erased pencil outline to the right of the head and right leg, which