Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 shackman japan which looks to have been

which looks to have been scratched in

and I'm glad it did

and it seems likely that's where it originated

arms stretched before them

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Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 shackman japan which looks to have beenThis is one of three watercolors of roses I purchased together, I believe all found together too, perhaps done at the same time by three different members of a family, or maybe more likely schoolmates. I like them individually in different ways, but also together, variations on a theme becoming in a sense portraits of their makers. This one, the most "primitive" of the three I'd say, with shield at upper left, is signed (maybe with the named of a