Radiant Peach! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper antique bottle and the almost electric spring

and the almost electric spring green gives it some punch

plus adding a poem to the backside of the page to boot

and this one feels quite special

which are often described as Shaker

the one at right shows Patent No 4887753

Radiant Peach! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper antique bottle and the almost electric springOne of three super saturated, strongly graphic old theorem watercolors of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and I believe with glass straws used for blowing the base level of watercolor paint) and airbrushed designs. Surely all done by one person, and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees