Stripes Obscuring Letters, Antique Cutout Watercolor Zebra on Penmanship Practice Scrap spirals And with the gradated application

And with the gradated application of the watercolor lending this wonderful softness to the whole thing

extricated only by cutting him off at the ankles--which was done a but unevenly

which I believe would have been done with the practical purpose for representing the proposed design for a room

but sometimes I can't

Stripes Obscuring Letters, Antique Cutout Watercolor Zebra on Penmanship Practice Scrap spirals And with the gradated applicationI've had some other old animals cut from scrap paper of this sort, but none so large or with watercolored stripes! Quite a charmer of a zebra I think, who also looks a lot like a donkey, and with penmanship practice repeated letters showing through the stripes and also covering the reverse side. 9" l x 7 1 2" t. Watercolor on card weight paper. Very good condition, c. 1900 I believe, found in Pennsylvania.