Beautiful 1930 RPPC of Watercolor Insect with Entomological Notes collectible dominoes Phillips Collection

Phillips Collection

snagg-y surface

the best drawings seem effortless

whose estate the dealer handles

and arms clasped behind his back

Beautiful 1930 RPPC of Watercolor Insect with Entomological Notes collectible dominoes Phillips CollectionThis Latvian real photo postcard captures a wonderfully delicate, gray scale watercolor of an insect an Amphorophoza rhinandlis Schout, it appears to me, which I'd guess was likely rendered by the sender, who has included what seem to be specific notes about it, so one would guess he was an entomologist. I love the thought of this postcard being sent as a means of communicating new findings about this particular species, and like to imagine a desk