Bellflowers, Lovely 1872 Floral Watercolor Signed Marian Marcelin meansuring cup Very very good/excellent condition

Very very good/excellent condition

but in the wrong place

It appears to have been kept by a Miss Eleanor Rees at Camp Kowanis the summer of 1923

very poetic feeling to me and quite striking

giving it its shape and allowing for the carving out of a drawer and the carving of the year 1922 into the face of it

Bellflowers, Lovely 1872 Floral Watercolor Signed Marian Marcelin meansuring cup Very very good/excellent conditionI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on another watercolor by this same Marian Marcelin that I listed last week, of an iris she "raised herself," these often seem to me to embody several points of pride at once. And I think this is a lovely example, bellflowers I believe. Signed on reverse and dated 1872. 8 3 8" x 5 3 4" and in excellent antique