Delicate and Intense Antique Cased Watercolor Portrait of Young Child 1930s drawing to be mine

to be mine

but no matter

and whoever made this certainly had a vision which they exerted a lot of time and effort to carry all the way through

but one also comes to realize not all old apothecary jars are the same

it's a perfect found object to me

Delicate and Intense Antique Cased Watercolor Portrait of Young Child 1930s drawing to be mineThis to me very much has the ethereal and otherworldly qualities of a daguerreotype of a painted portrait, though it is a miniature watercolor, unmediated by a camera. Such a fantastic intensity achieved through the most delicate means barely there but completely present, and with the deep blue of the eyes cast to one side making it seem that this child is witnessing something quite phenomenal. Mid 19th c. I believe, better in person, and to my