19th C. Naive Double-Sided Drawing: Girl and Flower, Farm with Turtle rite of passage Too pretty to resist

Too pretty to resist

most filled front and back

There is a fair amount of wear to the paint

The hand thrown vase is signed at the bottom

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19th C. Naive Double-Sided Drawing: Girl and Flower, Farm with Turtle rite of passage Too pretty to resistOne last one from a number of drawings I've list by the same (surely quite young) maker, 1870s or so I believe, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. This is one of my favorites, especially for the rosy cheeked girl below the painted and crayoned flower on one side, but also for what looks to me like a turtle crawling along at the bottom left corner on the reverse side. 7 3 4" x 5 1