Charming Framed Schoolgirl Drawing of Fashionable Ladies, c. 1870-80s country craft featuring a plaited cedar bark

featuring a plaited cedar bark base and rim with cedar bark strip

that runs though the body

It also suggests that this store was pushing a generic brand of petroleum jelly

And a surprise painting/drawing of a girl on reverse

Charming Framed Schoolgirl Drawing of Fashionable Ladies, c. 1870-80s country craft featuring a plaited cedar barkThis naive watercolor was clearly inspired by a popular print of the day showing the latest Parisian fashions, and, done on faintly ruled paper, I I believe was likely done by a schoolgirl (who was surely fantasizing about Paris and fine dresses and she painted it!) In addition to the fabulous dresses and, especially, hats, I love how this killer lapis blue plays off the more subdued shades of brown (now; the darker brown was surely once black.) Plus