SOLD Martha, Walter and Elfredia's Brushes with Carved Names and Fancy Inlays hiker and dog Actual face sized

Actual face sized

10 5/8" x 8 1/4"

I’ve gotten really into old landscapes that were ethereal to begin with and which age has made all the more so

and with very pretty pink backs

missing just one hanging loop at the base of one short side

SOLD Martha, Walter and Elfredia's Brushes with Carved Names and Fancy Inlays hiker and dog Actual face sizedSo fun, and clearly so much love invested in these. And hard to look at these and not want to know all about Martha and Walter and Elfredia I'd say good fodder for a short story. The full scale and general nature of them makes me imagine that they were not made by a father for his children, say, but rather perhaps for a group of three siblings still living together in their old age who knows?! How wonderfully crafted they were in any event, late 19th