SOLD Religion is the Daughter of Heven [sic], Early Penmanship Exercise with Charming Mistakes and Corrections naive painting with incredible detail

with incredible detail

with its extraordinarily expressive face and posture

and via which it would have attached it to a larger structure

Hollowed out inside

6” x 3 7/8” and in overall good condition

SOLD Religion is the Daughter of H<a>even [sic], Early Penmanship Exercise with Charming Mistakes and Corrections naive painting with incredible detailSurely done as a penmanship exercise, c. mid 19th c, I was of course drawn to this formally, for the beautifully inked lettering, and also for the rather curious (and arguably contentious) phrase "Religion is the Daughter of Heaven." But I really fell in love with it as I started to started to notice its misspellings, corrections, and the curious choice of placing greatest emphasis on the word THE! A double "is" under religion, as it seems the first