Boys in Hudson Lake Holding Line antique compliments card and a painting

and a painting

and especially the stack of handwritten correspondence inside dating back to the 1850s

Plenty of dings and dents to the globe

this guy seems to have been the 107th creation of what I believe was quite a small company

Each side 11" long

Boys in Hudson Lake Holding Line antique compliments card and a paintingFeels like a ballet in the water. Beautifully gestural, the line they hold to barely there, and with very excellent shadows of their young bodies in the ripples on the lake. Very gentle. With a note on the back that identifies this as Hudson Lake. 5 3 8" x 3 1 2", very good condition. "Hudson Lake" written in pencil on reverse.