Self-reflexive 19th Century Watercolor Rose with Torn and Taped Stem antique English pottery another in a shoe

another in a shoe

7 7/8" l x 4" tall

Richard Fleischner images

A very sweet example of a daily diary like this and I just love the look of all those not quite straight lines separating each day of pages filled with handwritten text

And then a hat and a red barn

Self-reflexive 19th Century Watercolor Rose with Torn and Taped Stem antique English pottery another in a shoeI am a bit obsessed with this one. It is a fine, c. mid 19th century watercolor of a rose, which was very precisely cutout and pasted down onto this piece of card (by it's original maker I believe). But in that cutting process, I presume, the paper stem of the watercolor rose tore, and so they pasted it down above. And so, the presence of that broken stem, which casts just a bit of a shadow onto the page, tells us not just that the rose itself was cut