Girl with Giant Black Dog and Fairy Lady, 1870 Naive Watercolor Drawing, Framed portugese and maybe place a magnifying

and maybe place a magnifying glass nearby

From the dense clusters of rusty fat nails attaching the notched plank legs to the seat

with those seven precisely positioned

perhaps WWI

What I know is that this came from a collection of watercolors mostly of water by a young woman of means that included views captured in Italian Lakes

Girl with Giant Black Dog and Fairy Lady, 1870 Naive Watercolor Drawing, Framed portugese and maybe place a magnifyingImages of girls with their dogs are fast becoming my favorite subject, and I'm definitely charmed by this one, which is wonderfully strange, as if an image from a dream which of course is often what makes children's drawings so compelling, which I believe is what this is. I assume this giant jet black creature is indeed a dog with a big stick in its mouth??? looming larger than life in the maker's imagination; and would guess it is her hat she is