Delicate and Intense Antique Cased Watercolor Portrait of Young Child paintbrush as bright and crisp and

as bright and crisp and clean as if made yesterday

it is not a fold line

used for sweeping eraser crumbs off of blueprints

still very vivid and just really wonderful

Delicate and Intense Antique Cased Watercolor Portrait of Young Child paintbrush as bright and crisp andThis to me very much has the ethereal and otherworldly qualities of a daguerreotype of a painted portrait, though it is a miniature watercolor, unmediated by a camera. Such a fantastic intensity achieved through the most delicate means barely there but completely present, and with the deep blue of the eyes cast to one side making it seem that this child is witnessing something quite phenomenal. Mid 19th c. I believe, better in person, and to my