SOLD Farm House with Encroaching Tree, Antique Mounted Photo quill blank on reverse

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The last one from a quartet of kid made cut paper works I purchased a few weeks ago from a dealer at Brimfield

but happily there's lots of other good ones filling its 50 pages

There is a little bit of bend to the arm

There are a series of X's carved lightly into the exterior near the top on one side

SOLD Farm House with Encroaching Tree, Antique Mounted Photo quill blank on reverseI love an old photo of a house that feels very much like a specific portrait, all the better when that photograph has itself accrued a patina that seems to further enhance the innate character of the place. And, in this case, I especially love the young tree growing just beside what I take for the front door, as if forever trapping the inhabitants inside or keeping others out! a sort of gate inside the gate. And with a nice stretch of white painted