Four Wings and a Prayer! Wonderful Old Snapshot of Angel Girls, Presumed Portuguese old carving and a great object

and a great object

which it attacheds to simply via a carved bone peg

Not a flaw anywhere on it that I can see

eager to imbibe whatever is poured into it

I really can't imagine a clearer or truer feeling portrayal of familial closeness and connection and interdependence than in this drawing--everyone bundled together in and under one big blue cloak

Four Wings and a Prayer! Wonderful Old Snapshot of Angel Girls, Presumed Portuguese old carving and a great objectTo my sensibilities a completely perfect snapshot, capturing a specific fleeting moment but also totally transcendent. And between those blacks and whites and grays, the geometries of doors and frames and horizontals beams, and the outwardly arching wings and inwardly arching praying hands, it really could not be formally and compositionally better. And both like a vision and a film still. Handwriting in what I believe is Portuguese on reverse, but I