Batter and Catcher Watching Ball (or UFO!), Transcendent Old Snapshot Photo occupied Japan school book 1815-30 I know for sure

1815-30 I know for sure

I don't know who painted the painting or quite why these three together

like pure sunshine on the outside

with terrific midnight blue hand-painted strips and circles against bright white body

I think this is a little gem of a landscape

Batter and Catcher Watching Ball (or UFO!), Transcendent Old Snapshot Photo occupied Japan school book 1815-30 I know for sureI really really love this little snapshot. For me at least, it took a few moments to figure out that it is a catcher's mask and glove in the hands of the child at center, and the very end of a bat in the hand of the boy in the foreground, and so it must be a ball in the air that their eyes are following, though they appear to be looking in somewhat different directions for it! But between the framing and the light, and their faces and gestures and