Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card wood and wire trap storing most of the days

storing most of the days finds inside to carry them home

I think it has the immediacy of a drawing

and based on a bit of research I believe most likely made by James Fallows & Sons of Philadelphia

put your phone away

I found this one in New Hampshire and doubt it travelled very far

Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card wood and wire trap storing most of the daysMaybe not exactly my typical style, but this (and a second by the same maker listed separately) is amazing hard to understand scale from photos, but it took me getting out a magnifier to confirm it as a watercolor rather than a print, so finely and precisely executed. Perhaps there were once four of them, representing the four seasons? This mother, dangling grapes just out of reach of her child, a bounty of fruit beside her, seems to suggest summer,