I am a bit obsessed with this one. It is a fine, c. mid 19th century watercolor of a rose, which was very precisely cutout and pasted down onto this piece of card (by it's original maker I believe). But in that cutting process, I presume, the paper stem of the watercolor rose tore, and so they pasted it down above. And so, the presence of that broken stem, which casts just a bit of a shadow onto the page, tells us not just that the rose itself was cut out and pasted down (hard to discern otherwise, though one can feel it with one's fingers), but also, to my mind at least, makes it feel like a very post-modern thing-- a deconstruction of illusionistic representation itself! Anyway, that's how I see it, self-reflexive, and also iconic feeling, and also all about delicacy and fragility. Love.
7" x 5 7/8". Lovely antique condition, with pasted down broken stem and irregularly trimmed bottom edge, which is all part of what I think makes it great.
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