Elizabeth Warwick, Age 18, 1859 Victorian Mourning Card Framed on Black Silk oil on board I think this little painting

I think this little painting is pretty poignant in its portrayal of a adolescent rite of passage--a mix of excitement

captioned simply "Fooling

done in the 1930s I believe

then peering through the kaleidoscopic towers of rings and squares I'd constructed

Elizabeth Warwick, Age 18, 1859 Victorian Mourning Card Framed on Black Silk oil on board I think this little paintingIt seemed all about 1859 for me this week, as I found both this mourning card and the 1859 hat box on the same day, in the same spot in Maine, which almost made me wonder whether Miss Elizabeth Warwick made the latter on her death bed. Just a beautiful example of one of these I think, with weeping trees and weeping women and an hourglass with wings to either side of the engraved text, with poem speaking of the flower being transplanted, the sunshine