In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame tonka truck The vase is signed with

The vase is signed with what looks like "Sena" on the bottom

amid which these prints would certainly have felt at home

14 1/8" x 10 1/8" and in overall good antique condition

but have their own distinct sensibility

watercolor of a green pigeon

In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame tonka truck The vase is signed withA perfect 19th birthday present if I ever saw one though also for anyone who can remember being nineteen, in my case very distantly! One certainly wonders what all happened that year in the life of the Frank Ellis who drew this in 1864 during the Civil War, with the arching stalks and capillary like branches of what I take for boughs of a fruit tree having a bit of the mournful quality of a weeping willow. But, yet, a pot of blooming flowers right at