Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor Swedish man including several layers of skirt

including several layers of skirt

Terry rendered this scene on what one imagines was a chilly January evening in 1897--portraying

Jones for Andrew J

long beard

I wish I knew more about this one--an ambrotype

Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor Swedish man including several layers of skirtI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and girls and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on a watercolor of an iris by a different maker that I listed last week, in many cases these were of flowers women "raised" themselves several points of pride at once. I really like the attention paid to the petals and "beard" on this single bloom, treated a bit like a scientific specimen! Paper 7 5