Hoary Comma Butterfly with Pink Flowers, Lovely 19th Century Ink and Watercolor nautical nesting dolls Wear and roughness along top

Wear and roughness along top and bottom center

Sold in the old wooden frame

with the marvelous clown suit decoration on his torso entirely in tact--and the pom poms still on his booties

His very particular posture seems a pure embodiment of lustfulness

Hoary Comma Butterfly with Pink Flowers, Lovely 19th Century Ink and Watercolor nautical nesting dolls Wear and roughness along topA few last 19th century ink and watercolor butterfly drawings from a portfolio of half a dozen or so I purchased from a favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley several weeks ago. This butterfly is unidentified on the page, but a quick search tells me the beautiful orange creature is known as a Hoary Comma! Very finely done, with some gold painted details on the body and near interior of the wings, and then this very delicate spring of pink blooms.