Annette's 1875 Cut Paper Fortune Teller with German Fraktur Lettering bunny head 12" long and in excellent

12" long and in excellent condition

A written note on the back of the frame describes the subject as "Robert Southey in 1836"

stained a rich dark brown

The ink is very dark and crisp

Annette's 1875 Cut Paper Fortune Teller with German Fraktur Lettering bunny head 12" long and in excellentAs you surely know by now, I'm forever drawn to 19th century cut paper love tokens and the like, and very much to beautifully inked calligraphic lettering too so of course I jumped on this one. One sees decorated paper rounds like this made like snowflakes, by folding then cutting usually described as valentines, and the best of them decorated with hand written poetic verses, or watercolored flowers, etc. but this is the first I've seen with German