White Cow Wading, Lovely Antique Watercolor Signed Ward in Hand-carved, Presumed Original, Folk Art Frame ship building subject and not too often early

and not too often early painted ones either

with one small hole in the paper at center left

and among the earliest too

at the start of the lap on the lid

and all the text is black ink--it is titled " The Enigmatical Desert [sic] or Fruits

White Cow Wading, Lovely Antique Watercolor Signed Ward in Hand-carved, Presumed Original, Folk Art Frame ship building subject and not too often earlyA beauty of a cow, and a beauty of a watercolor and a charmer of an old carved frame, too. I believe all date to the later 19th century, and would guess the watercolor has lived its whole life, or at least most of it, in this frame. As mounted, it feels rather as if we are looking through a window to catch a glimpse of the cow in the distance, who looks back at us in turn, seeming not altogether pleased to be disturbed. And so, at least to my weird