Charming and Naively Sophisticated Early-Mid 19th Century Fantasy Architecture Watercolor in Period Frame antique paints Just a sweet and lovely

Just a sweet and lovely little painting

so was delighted to find this one this weekend

Large presence

suggesting perhaps this was once part of a museum or historic house collection

And of course bird cages make perfect vitrines for all sorts of things

Charming and Naively Sophisticated Early-Mid 19th Century Fantasy Architecture Watercolor in Period Frame antique paints Just a sweet and lovelyA little glare in the photos here and the colors are richer in hand. This is a very lovely earlyish 19th century naive watercolor, and exactly the kind of small painting one wants to live with I think a dreamy sort of landscape centered on a piece (or series of pieces of) what I take for fantasy architecture s. (And really, what a curious 18th 19th century folk art phenomenon "fantasy" architecture paintings were often executed as sandpaper drawings,