Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem vintage advertising sample very delicate piece of seaweed

very delicate piece of seaweed

and which appear all done by the same person

which I assume was once used to advertise a flat for rent

In great shape

as they seemed rather less concerned with the details of the face of this presumably Dutch man--sweetly and a bit hesitantly penciling in eyes

Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem vintage advertising sample very delicate piece of seaweedJust lovely, I could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day, to my eye so lush and radiant and almost electric feeling. Contemporary feeling too; the concentration of color along the hard edges (created using stencils, and blowing paint with a glass straw), as on the rose petals here, always makes me think of the paintings of Roger Brown. I know from the other two I found this one with, clearly by the same maker, that it dates to the late