LION with Huge Red Lipped Smile, Marvelous Large Pastel on Paper Folk Drawing, Framed as Found herb faucher inuit carving an Irish aristocrat and revolutionary

an Irish aristocrat and revolutionary

dated 1830

7" w x 6" t

and specifically portraying "the intimacy of our former life at Ennadia Lake

Recently placed (by the seller I purchased it from) into a period frame with archival backing

LION with Huge Red Lipped Smile, Marvelous Large Pastel on Paper Folk Drawing, Framed as Found herb faucher inuit carving an Irish aristocrat and revolutionaryI wish I knew everything about this one but I don't. I know it lived in a New England collection for many years, the same collection as the 1817 Lady Justice watercolor listed today; I purchased both from relatives, and know this lion was the owner's favorite. No wonder! It feels to me more more like a work of a self taught artist than a child, and a bit more "outsider" than "folk" a visionary version of a lion, though very much in conversation with a