Two Finches and a Sparrow, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor dowels plus many sorts of chairs

plus many sorts of chairs and kites and a unicycle too

5 inch diameter at the opening

but here they are

with very light spotting to the surface of the lacquer visible under bright light

in all good ways

Two Finches and a Sparrow, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor dowels plus many sorts of chairsA few more today from a second batch of fine c. 1840s watercolors, which I went back to my source in Germany to scoop up after having sold the last several I had quickly. This is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, very finely executed ink and watercolor drawing, and my photos do it no justice; the color and detail is just glorious! One sees hand colored engravings in this manner (Bertuch et al) but quite a different thing in watercolor,