Antique Blue Painted Trunk Side with Yellow Bird on Branch gold and red I like how the bright

I like how the bright red of the 35 gives way to the (more nuanced and complex

1798 engraving comes from a volume published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch

with each inch divided into 32nds on the flip side

and an especially empathetic one for a friend with writer's block

and other signed works of his to which it bears a resemblance

Antique Blue Painted Trunk Side with Yellow Bird on Branch gold and red I like how the brightMy general philosophy is to buy things whose sheer existence makes me happy, which is certainly the case with this, surely once the side of a trunk, iron handle still in place, and which someone cared enough to salvage. The red breasted yellow bird on branch of what looks a bit like bleeding hearts gives me all the pleasure of a fraktur watercolor, with the wavy yellow border and then dovetailed edges of the panel making the perfect frame! Plus that