Mid 19th C. Apothecary Bottle with Luisa Wells' Hand-drawn Bird and Note Adirondack painting must have collected hundreds of

must have collected hundreds of these free giveaway domino cards (one per each tin of Summits) in order to form this complete double six deck

The wonderfully gestural surface decoration evinces a vertical sequence of blooms

which is wonderfully worn

but great structural shape

Mid 19th C. Apothecary Bottle with Luisa Wells' Hand-drawn Bird and Note Adirondack painting must have collected hundreds ofI am perpetually in search of drawings like this bird, and all the better that this one was drawn then affixed to this French apothecary bottle. It is signed by a Luisa Wells, with a handwritten note above that is a bit hard to read, but appears to be addressed to a Master Gaines White (or similar), who Luisa writes "is a fine scholar and learns well." And so I believe Luisa was likely Master Gaines' tutor, and that she likely travelled to France, and