Photos do no great justice to this one--hard to manage the glare and the frame without washing out the drawing and losing the detail of the figures in the windows--but I promise it is much better in hand and I think really very wonderful, and quite unusual too. The house was drawn by hand, ink and ink wash/watercolor, while the figures in the windows are carefully cutout and pasted down engravings/lithographs, with watercolor on top. I've never seen another like this, and just love how the collaged figures in the windows transform a very architectural sort of drawing into a living, breathing house, and with a clear conversation happening among the figures in the windows: the man in blue upstairs seeming to cast his gaze toward the young woman in the window to his right, and then a mother and child in the window below, and a slightly older woman who looks to be reading or perhaps sewing in her own wing of the house. A portrait of a house and its people.
Framed as found, antique frame with original glass: 17 1/2" x 14 3/4" measured from the far points of frame. Sight: 13 1/4" x 10 3/4". All in very good antique condition, with a bit of toning to the paper/reddish patch at upper right of paper, minor. Later 19th c. I believe.
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