Charming Graphite and Watercolor House Portrait, Burdett NY, 1860s, with Another on Reverse hand-painted lettering The combination of black cover

The combination of black cover with handwritten label and straw tie together with page after page of white linen really does it for me

painted in 1910 and mailed from Beach Lake (Pennsylvania I believe) to Brooklyn

And this I think is a great one

and the lines of the truck are pretty terrific too

Charming Graphite and Watercolor House Portrait, Burdett NY, 1860s, with Another on Reverse hand-painted lettering The combination of black coverI know from the dealer I purchased this from who shares my love of antique naive drawings and watercolors and has many I covet that it was done by a child in Burdett, NY, c. 1860s. I paid nearly as much for it as I am asking, but just couldn't resist this wonderfully specific and wonderfully wonky structure, with its green door, two smoking chimneys and all these many windows glowing yellow. The way the leaves on those trees were rendered under the