Early 19th Century Watercolor of Blue House with Willow german Gorgeously aged painted surfaces with

Gorgeously aged painted surfaces with alligatoring here and there and a bunch of worm holes freckling him

threadbare between the flags at top and just below "Powow River" on the front side

certainly bears a strong resemblance to West German pieces of the fat lava era

(Letters are noted in upper left corner of each

Another one found in Maine this week and I would bet painted en plein air on the coast somewhere between Maine and Massachusetts

Early 19th Century Watercolor of Blue House with Willow german Gorgeously aged painted surfaces withOne sees watercolors of houses done in this manner in early 19th century school notebooks and I swoon every time I see one. This one I found in Maine in a pile of early 19th century rewards of merit, and I happen to know that is what this one is too. I quickly popped it in this simple wooden frame (probably early 20th c.) to keep it safe, mounted to archival board with archival tape and would leave it just as is unless one has a terrific period frame