Charming and Naively Sophisticated Early-Mid 19th Century Fantasy Architecture Watercolor in Period Frame antique paints but I love it as

but I love it as an object

And of course bird cages make perfect vitrines for all sorts of things

with the rust creeping up toward those trusty and official looking capital white letters

suggesting perhaps this was once part of a museum or historic house collection

Some smearing to the old paint

Charming and Naively Sophisticated Early-Mid 19th Century Fantasy Architecture Watercolor in Period Frame antique paints but I love it asA little glare in the photos here and the colors are richer in hand. This is a very lovely earlyish 19th century naive watercolor, and exactly the kind of small painting one wants to live with I think a dreamy sort of landscape centered on a piece (or series of pieces of) what I take for fantasy architecture s. (And really, what a curious 18th 19th century folk art phenomenon "fantasy" architecture paintings were often executed as sandpaper drawings,