Upside Down Golden Apple! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper spirit photo just lots of indigenous irregularities

just lots of indigenous irregularities to the wood

10 3/4" l x 1 7/8" across at widest

The watercolor portrait is signed along the right edge "Wil Bone

Full of charm and mood and the anticipation of delight I think

Upside Down Golden Apple! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper spirit photo just lots of indigenous irregularitiesOne of three lush, strongly graphic old theorem watercolor paintings of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and 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 similar numbering