SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child vintage barware but the paint job on

but the paint job on the mustard yellow cow with blue eye and cowbell is pretty hard to beat

Both the shapes and the placement of those dots is wonderfully irregular

and peas growing in limestone and water

It is in very good condition and I believe was indeed used

with scattered stains and some toning around the edges of the heavy

SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child vintage barware but the paint job onI only buy things I like and would be happy to keep, but this is one of those I'd be especially fine holding on to ; I really really really love pinprick decorated watercolors, and this I believe is quite a phenomenal example. What an incredible density of tiny tiny pricked holes, making the hat and robe of this man feel quite like a cloud, and with what appear like angel wings (though perhaps a large pack) emerging from his back. The effect to my eye