Delicate and Intense Antique Cased Watercolor Portrait of Young Child paintbrush used for sweeping eraser crumbs

used for sweeping eraser crumbs off of blueprints

gentle strength

it is not a fold line

It does seem possible it is indeed that old

Delicate and Intense Antique Cased Watercolor Portrait of Young Child paintbrush used for sweeping eraser crumbsThis to me very much has the ethereal and otherworldly qualities of a daguerreotype of a painted portrait, though it is a miniature watercolor, unmediated by a camera. Such a fantastic intensity achieved through the most delicate means barely there but completely present, and with the deep blue of the eyes cast to one side making it seem that this child is witnessing something quite phenomenal. Mid 19th c. I believe, better in person, and to my