Living in Fear and Dread...Strange and Timely Naive Measles Drawing with Poem decorative birds spanning 1884-88

spanning 1884-88

9 3/4" x 6 15/16"

Very sound and stable now

I think it's just about the most beautiful painted basket I've ever seen

Living in Fear and Dread...Strange and Timely Naive Measles Drawing with Poem decorative birds spanning 1884-88Such a strange one! And, sadly, quite a timely one given the recent return of the measles to our lives fear and dread indeed. Aside from that horror, I really love everything about this: what a face, and what a spatter of pink pocks, and table of remedies in front of them too, and then this awkward poem, in excellent all caps hand lettering (with pencil drawn lines as guides), progressing from the relief of speckles that are freckles to the the