SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child plaster cookie moster with the house feeling as

with the house feeling as much of a protagonist in its own story as any human might be

The Band of Hope referred to here is a temperance organization for working-class children founded in Leeds in 1847

as the cards are annotated in pencil with what they stand for

and carefully tailored costume of perfectly fitted purple linen bolero jacket and pants

The tradition of Semamori began as a Japanese folk custom in the Edo period

SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child plaster cookie moster with the house feeling asI only buy things I like and would be happy to keep, but this is one of those I'd be especially fine holding on to ; I really really really love pinprick decorated watercolors, and this I believe is quite a phenomenal example. What an incredible density of tiny tiny pricked holes, making the hat and robe of this man feel quite like a cloud, and with what appear like angel wings (though perhaps a large pack) emerging from his back. The effect to my eye