Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem embossed frame I love it when I

I love it when I find Victorian sea moss specimens that were collected in my neck of the woods--these in Rockport

purchased from a favorite Pennsylvania based dealer

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this one Murray's English Grammar Simplified by Allen Fish

Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem embossed frame I love it when IJust 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