Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card PET pick perhaps containing news the chaplain

perhaps containing news the chaplain is none too happy about

7” w on square

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

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

Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card PET pick perhaps containing news the chaplainMaybe 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,