Antique Folk Art Watercolor and Silk Embroidery on Silk Mourning Picture mushroom The carved details on the

The carved details on the wings

Recently papered back on the frame

published in 1835

perhaps abandoned before finished

Antique Folk Art Watercolor and Silk Embroidery on Silk Mourning Picture mushroom The carved details on theThis charmer! Like a naive schoolgirl drawing rendered in silk embroidery, except for watercolor used for the girls face and pale blue sky behind her. To my eye and sensibilities just wonderful, this blushing girl in her fabulous striped dress (with little blue shoe peeking out) bent forward and looking quite contemplative, her hat in her lap and flowering sprig in the other, and with just a partial view of an urn in front of her. That, along with