Antique Deer in Landscape Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame two faces the tip of the tail

the tip of the tail to indicate the trump suit and the left ear to point to the number of tricks a team plans to take

including how best to make use of a necktie

The overview photo gives a pretty good sense of color I think

signed and dated at lower right

Artist John Skeaping

Antique Deer in Landscape Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame two faces the tip of the tailReally a gem of a small watercolor I think, late 19th c. I would guess, with a lovely, keen looking deer standing at a stream enveloped by a dense, impressionistically painted landscape. The backside of the frame shows that it was framed by Foster Brothers on Boylston St, Boston, founded in 1893 by brothers Stephen Bartlett Foster and John Roy Foster, and renowned for making unique carved and gilded frames, especially in the Arts and Crafts style. The