Thomas Stokes Have Lett 10 Old Sheep and Five Lambs, Charming 1777 Handwritten Contract painted faces perhaps for a very musical

perhaps for a very musical sweetheart--and it would make a very sweet token of love now to the same

active in the last few decades of the 19th c

which I now find impossible not to hold in mind as I look at this one and which makes this landscape feel anything but naive

making me pretty confident this was a surveyor's map

I believe this piece was intended as a perfume bottle but

Thomas Stokes Have Lett 10 Old Sheep and Five Lambs, Charming 1777 Handwritten Contract painted faces perhaps for a very musicalThis is one of very favorite finds of the week, and makes me very happy, including for being able to vividly imagine Thomas Stokes' ten old sheep and five lambs, appraised at the rate of 20 shillings "apease" which he "lett" in exchange for one pound of "wooll" for each one, each year, for two years. Dated May 26th, 1777, less than one year after America's Declaration of Independence, when colony issued pounds, shillings and pence were still in