His Sign is the Lion, Pennsylvania German 1803 Fraktur Watercolor Birth Announcement in Brilliant Color cocktail game earlyish 20th century

earlyish 20th century

there feels a powerfully true and tender convergence of naivete and brutality in drawings like this

Very cinematic

A charmer of an old wooden field decoy I think

Simple as can be

His Sign is the Lion, Pennsylvania German 1803 Fraktur Watercolor Birth Announcement in Brilliant Color cocktail game earlyish 20th centuryI just cannot walk away from color like this. And I find it a very wonderful thing that the birth of a child should be recorded and celebrated in such a glorious way. Here: Johannes Esjchleman born on March 31, 1803. (I believe I've got it right often names were spelled phonetically; I've found a record for a "John" Eshleman born on the same day in Lancaster, PA to father Johannes, certainly this is he.) Best here is the following inclusion: "und sein