Charming Graphite and Watercolor House Portrait, Burdett NY, 1860s, with Another on Reverse hand-painted lettering while also delivering a lot

while also delivering a lot of information in what surrounds it

looking very much like wooden Erzgebirge ones

And this I think is a great one

pretty wonderful I think

giving it a modernist crispness in certain contexts and and a great earthiness in others

Charming Graphite and Watercolor House Portrait, Burdett NY, 1860s, with Another on Reverse hand-painted lettering while also delivering a lotI know from the dealer I purchased this from who shares my love of antique naive drawings and watercolors and has many I covet that it was done by a child in Burdett, NY, c. 1860s. I paid nearly as much for it as I am asking, but just couldn't resist this wonderfully specific and wonderfully wonky structure, with its green door, two smoking chimneys and all these many windows glowing yellow. The way the leaves on those trees were rendered under the