Hoary Comma Butterfly with Pink Flowers, Lovely 19th Century Ink and Watercolor nautical nesting dolls I love little carved peach

I love little carved peach pit baskets

Plus a happy red awning over the door and two front steps

Wear and roughness along top and bottom center

with the marvelous clown suit decoration on his torso entirely in tact--and the pom poms still on his booties

finished with linseed oil and lacquer

Hoary Comma Butterfly with Pink Flowers, Lovely 19th Century Ink and Watercolor nautical nesting dolls I love little carved peachA few last 19th century ink and watercolor butterfly drawings from a portfolio of half a dozen or so I purchased from a favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley several weeks ago. This butterfly is unidentified on the page, but a quick search tells me the beautiful orange creature is known as a Hoary Comma! Very finely done, with some gold painted details on the body and near interior of the wings, and then this very delicate spring of pink blooms.