To Jeanette, My (Muddy Buddy) Valentine, With Love From F.W african american it is especially the painting

it is especially the painting of Christ that gets me

10 1/2" x 4 3/8" x 1 1/4"

Lushly rendered in watercolor and dated 1859

I presume identifying where it came from

To Jeanette, My (Muddy Buddy) Valentine, With Love From F.W african american it is especially the paintingA sweet old homemade valentine that can double as as a 'happy Easter,' I'd say, with this charmer of a crayoned rabbit in blue jacket carrying what surely could pass for a basket of decorated eggs! It's the combination of him and the message inside that does it for me here: The road is muddy you are my buddy and this is the time to be my valentine. Pretty sweet. 5 7 8" x 4 1 2" closed. The crayoned rabbit was drawn, cut out and pasted down with green