Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card PET pick with reinforced stitches around her

with reinforced stitches around her arms and neck

Colorado---with one of the area's rich gold veins  apparently discovered by none other than David Lamon in 1895

and with a slide opening on one end and an inset piece at the bottom

I was not prepared for the scale and weight--and terrific presence

Seems a good metaphor for many a situation

Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card PET pick with reinforced stitches around herMaybe not exactly my typical style, but this (and a second by the same maker listed separately) is amazing hard to understand scale from photos, but it took me getting out a magnifier to confirm it as a watercolor rather than a print, so finely and precisely executed. Perhaps there were once four of them, representing the four seasons? This mother, dangling grapes just out of reach of her child, a bounty of fruit beside her, seems to suggest summer,