SOLD Marvelous Early 19th C. New England Theorem Painting, Woman with Lamb brass shoe but first the box

but first the box

I'd guess these date to the 1940s or so but have not found any others like them

perhaps one should wear a caftan while watering to complete the scene

Another house-shaped tramp art coin bank

cumulating as one goes

SOLD Marvelous Early 19th C. New England Theorem Painting, Woman with Lamb brass shoe but first the boxAmong my favorite finds ever I think, and just the sort of early theorem painting I am always wanting to find. New England c. 1815 30 I know for sure, and the seller I purchased it from bought it in the early 1980s at auction from Eldred's on Cape Cod. I love the directness of the gaze of our woman in blue with little lamb wrapped in her arms seeming a picture of gentleness and goodness, and yet also looking perhaps just a bit defiant, as if to say