Rosina Farmer, Charming 1851 Signed Ink and Watercolor Portrait in Profile in Original Frame jack in the box Frame is especially lovely

Frame is especially lovely

but a Jack Russell or a Fox terrier you probably know better than I

Nice and fat and plush

but I think they would be equally great at the grown-up's table

And there's a pile of more loose clipping that was stuck inside

Rosina Farmer, Charming 1851 Signed Ink and Watercolor Portrait in Profile in Original Frame jack in the box Frame is especially lovelyI really love a 19th century miniature portrait, but much prefer a painted silhouette to a hollow cut one, as for me it is all about the details and feeling the presence of the hand. This one is is signed and dated (1851 it looks to me, 1850 something for sure) and attributed on the back of the frame as portraying a Rosina Farmer, noted as being 55 years old in 1865, so I presume in her early 40s here. I love her face, looking bright eyed and open and