Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem embossed frame on the western coast

on the western coast

purchased from a favorite Pennsylvania based dealer

5 7/8" x 3 1/2" and in very good condition

this one Murray's English Grammar Simplified by Allen Fish

Shaff who took this photograph--b

Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem embossed frame on the western coastJust lovely, I could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day, to my eye so lush and radiant and almost electric feeling. Contemporary feeling too; the concentration of color along the hard edges (created using stencils, and blowing paint with a glass straw), as on the rose petals here, always makes me think of the paintings of Roger Brown. I know from the other two I found this one with, clearly by the same maker, that it dates to the late