Scroll and Crown Flower; Roses and Poem: Double-sided 1848 Theorem Watercolor handmade flag Signed on the back Marguerite

Signed on the back Marguerite Evans Isaacs

with a great flip side too

feels so tender and honest-- heartwarming

but holding it a bit loose

with the mark dating them definitively to between 1845 - 1865

Scroll and Crown Flower; Roses and Poem: Double-sided 1848 Theorem Watercolor handmade flag Signed on the back MargueriteI could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day, so lush and radiant, with the combination of greens on the leaves here just electric! Those red blooms are pretty electric, too, identified as "Crown flower" below. I like the blankness of the scroll here, as if in perpetual wait for the right words. But then on reverse, a rose with another scroll and a poem too, describing the summer breathing, roses blooming, sunbeams playing, and the