Marvelous 19th C. Naive Watercolor and Graphite Drawing of Two Children and Noah's Arc (?) beautiful box including those stippled black whiskers

including those stippled black whiskers

I find it quite a beautiful thing

and believe the blue flag with red cross may be a British naval flag

The box opens and closes easily and is in good overall condition

Marvelous 19th C. Naive Watercolor and Graphite Drawing of Two Children and Noah's Arc (?) beautiful box including those stippled black whiskersOh, just exactly my favorite sort of drawing, and how rare it seems, more and more so, to find ones like this done by a school child I believe, mid 19th c. or so I think, graphite and watercolor on lined paper, with an embossed stamp at the upper left edge of the paper. Look at his striped purple tights! And her polka dotted apron against mustard yellow sleeves. And those faces, and hands, and heads of hair, and the way sho looks as if she's