Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper finely made wooden clothes pin with prisms for the lenses

with prisms for the lenses

I've found a few other boxes designed in a similar manner

It will sit or kneel on its own in various positions

but still she looks quite self-possessed

rare primer itself

Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper finely made wooden clothes pin with prisms for the lensesOne of three lush, strongly graphic old theorem watercolor paintings of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and with glass straws used for blowing the base level of watercolor paint) and airbrushed designs. Surely all done by one person, and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees similar numbering