"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait cream vase with a really terrific

with a really terrific

The smaller balances nicely on the back of the larger

Really a gem of a small watercolor I think

I do believe the student who drew these took great delight in the drawing

lending a sense of life and motion to the ripples of the sea around her

"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait cream vase with a really terrificThis is to remember me The grass is green The rose is red This is left When I am ded. Signed what looks like Peter S. Burgard; I have turned up a Peter Gurgard born in 1822 in Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, married in 1850 in Erie, NY, which seems about right to me, period wise and in terms of the costumes here but I don't know for certain. There were a few scraps of notes included with it (see photos) noting it was purchased along with a 1829 fraktur