Detail photos give a much better sense of the charms of this one, which I found at the end of a long day of antiquing in PA when things get blurry (information overload) and it felt like one thing I didn't have to think twice about, waiting there just for me to find it. With all the white space here conveying a sense of the vastness of unknown terrain in what feels like a very true sort of way, the two sole trees further amplifying a sense of this landing in the "New World" in the middle of winter being no picnic, cold and lonely and bleak. Very naive in just the way I love, with great faces and gestures, perfectly honest and awkward.
20 1/8" x 16 1/2" framed 15 1/2" x 12" sight. Ink and watercolor, drawn Dec 2, 1849 as noted in ink at bottom center. There is a clean tear to the paper over the "2nd" in 22nd, and just a bit of rippling at far bottom corner, which could I'm sure be corrected by opening the frame, but I've left it alone. Frame itself is great, period if not original, grain painted. Much better in hand-details give the best sense here.
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