Small Fraktur Watercolor and Hand-colored Engravings c. 1840s tiger toy From your loving dortter Rebecca

From your loving dortter Rebecca

thicker in some areas and thinner in others

joined together with irregularly spaced

relating to hanging it horizontally--but I'm showing it vertically as I prefer it that way

before-- but I'm very happy to have made the discovery

Small Fraktur Watercolor and Hand-colored Engravings c. 1840s tiger toy From your loving dortter RebeccaI couldn't resist this little Fraktur watercolor of bowl with fruit and flowers, inscribed as a gift to a Miss Charlotte Wetherbee from her instructress, Mary M. R., who then writes: "Oh may your downward path be be fair, may you the Saviour's image bear." I'm not entirely sure the nature of instruction, but found the fraktur along with three pages from Flora's Lexicon, An Interpretation of the Language and Sentiment of Flowers, dated 1839, which