Woman Watering Her Garden Beds, Wonderful 19th Century Folk Art Sandpaper Drawing in Period Frame man in barn maybe a small town mayor

maybe a small town mayor

and original mirror inside

including lots of publications about Water Cures as well as on everything from the effects of tea and coffee to the vegetable diet

5 1/2" x 3 1/2" and in very good condition

Hard not to feel a little happier with this around

Woman Watering Her Garden Beds, Wonderful 19th Century Folk Art Sandpaper Drawing in Period Frame man in barn maybe a small town mayorNine out of ten 19th century sandpaper drawings portray dreamy vistas sailboats on water framed by rolling hills, maybe with a piece fantasy architecture perched someone. I love those, but if there were ever a sandpaper drawing made for me, I'd say this wonderfully naive, uncommonly intimate one is it look at this woman's neatly gridded, carefully tended garden beds! It seems quite sure to me that the maker of the drawing was the gardener herself, as