Striking Early, Large, Hand-Carved Printing Block with Heart, Beds, Flowers prairie wagon toy upper left

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A couple of pages show staining as pictured but overall pretty good condition and the construction type paper on which they were drawn is not especially brittle

I'm not sure that I could love this old painting more

" I assume articulating the action of the seated artist

Striking Early, Large, Hand-Carved Printing Block with Heart, Beds, Flowers prairie wagon toy upper leftI've seen some early carved print blocks, but I don't think ever one as large as this, or one I loved nearly as much! My guess is that it was used to print directly on the wall in a home though perhaps to make wall paper whatever the case it would have required some strength and determination to use, as it's fairly cumbersome and heavy. The heart at top framed with a ring of posts just kills me (which together with the overall shape makes this feel