Booths, Balloons, Baby Carriages, Puppet Show, Marvelous Naive Watercolor of Busy Scene alphabet print have endured some 200 years

have endured some 200 years

I'm not really one for potty humor

and I have not been able to find another of its kind

with swirls of holes made by a small nail leading the eye all around the foot

Booths, Balloons, Baby Carriages, Puppet Show, Marvelous Naive Watercolor of Busy Scene alphabet print have endured some 200 yearsPresumably done by a child long ago, I find this watercolor really marvelous, and quite sophisticated feeling, too. I take the scene as an open air market or fair, with all the figures moving along the center aisle drawn in profile, almost all facing in one direction, while all the figures hosting booths (none looking super happy about it) are drawn facing front as if just hoping some of these walkers will stop to visit them, but feeling pretty lonely