Miss Taylor as Jose Speckhaber Wearing Rainbow Ribbons, Charles Schoettel Attributed c. 1840s Watercolor Portrait happy clown grain painting frame but which

grain painting frame but which is not antique

I look at a lot of pin cushions--such perfect examples of the human compulsion to make even the smallest and simplest of utilitarian objects special--and while this is not a fancy one

with no cracks or splits or any other flaws of note that I can see

Several utilitarian things this week

>>one (the one with animals on the cover) features about 12 full pages of lovely penmanship practice along with a few pages with just one line at the top

Miss Taylor as Jose Speckhaber Wearing Rainbow Ribbons, Charles Schoettel Attributed c. 1840s Watercolor Portrait happy clown grain painting frame but whichIt took me a bit to realize this theatrical watercolor portrait depicts a woman "Miss Taylor" as noted in the caption, portraying a male character, "Jose Speckhaber" it looks to read, though I haven't been able to place the opera, the name of which is a bit hard from me at least to decipher. (Arnotis ???} Certainly women portraying male characters, and vice verse, was not uncommon, but it does make the wonderful rainbow colored ribbons on this costume