SOLD Farm House with Encroaching Tree, Antique Mounted Photo quill with beautiful rounded lip

with beautiful rounded lip

and then stippled black hair and red crosses for his eyes--perfectly offset by the great green of the handle

blank on reverse

The last one from a quartet of kid made cut paper works I purchased a few weeks ago from a dealer at Brimfield

but happily there's lots of other good ones filling its 50 pages

SOLD Farm House with Encroaching Tree, Antique Mounted Photo quill with beautiful rounded lipI love an old photo of a house that feels very much like a specific portrait, all the better when that photograph has itself accrued a patina that seems to further enhance the innate character of the place. And, in this case, I especially love the young tree growing just beside what I take for the front door, as if forever trapping the inhabitants inside or keeping others out! a sort of gate inside the gate. And with a nice stretch of white painted