Woman Watering Her Garden Beds, Wonderful 19th Century Folk Art Sandpaper Drawing in Period Frame man in barn I paid no attention to

I paid no attention to the signature on this little gouache on cardboard painting when I found it

There are numerous holes on their backs for hanging from screws or nails

Hard not to feel a little happier with this around

4 7/8" t x 4 1/8" diameter of lip

Woman Watering Her Garden Beds, Wonderful 19th Century Folk Art Sandpaper Drawing in Period Frame man in barn I paid no attention toNine out of ten 19th century sandpaper drawings portray dreamy vistas sailboats on water framed by rolling hills, maybe with a piece fantasy architecture perched someone. I love those, but if there were ever a sandpaper drawing made for me, I'd say this wonderfully naive, uncommonly intimate one is it look at this woman's neatly gridded, carefully tended garden beds! It seems quite sure to me that the maker of the drawing was the gardener herself, as