Girl with Spools Antique Painting on School Slate vintage Japanese toy otherwise good condition

otherwise good condition

H are known

Paper size is 20 x 16 1/2"

circa 1970s

Girl with Spools Antique Painting on School Slate vintage Japanese toy otherwise good conditionI thought this sweet little painting Victorian era, I'd think on an old school slate would make a great gift for an emerging seamstress, or anyone handy with a needle and thread, really. I love how the spool to her left appears to be falling from the sky, like a shooting star, and she reminds me of a waif from Dickens or the like, with this moment signaling her destiny yet to unfold! All of this is made even better by the old gold paint on the wood