Double Sided Antique Pennsylvania Slate Painting: Summer + Winter, Signed AC Eyler portrait drawing of man The lip of the base

The lip of the base measures 2 1/2" across

A pretty nice shadow image on the back too

cracks or other issues

which features what appears to be a hand-drawn and watercolored rendering for something industrial

Double Sided Antique Pennsylvania Slate Painting: Summer + Winter, Signed AC Eyler portrait drawing of man The lip of the baseOld paintings on school slates are certainly make do," creations of sorts, as slates were certainly easier to come by than canvases, and I especially love double sided ones, taking advantage of the nature of the slates themselves. This one seems to have been expressly made to be flipped, offering a snow covered landscape with church for the winter and a leafy tree flanked cottage by the water for summer. I especially love the blue sky over black