SOLD Religion is the Daughter of Heven [sic], Early Penmanship Exercise with Charming Mistakes and Corrections naive painting with incredible detail

with incredible detail

and via which it would have attached it to a larger structure

I've bought and sold a handful of old treen apples

with its extraordinarily expressive face and posture

4 7/16" x 4 3/4" closed and in very good condition

SOLD Religion is the Daughter of H<a>even [sic], Early Penmanship Exercise with Charming Mistakes and Corrections naive painting with incredible detailSurely done as a penmanship exercise, c. mid 19th c, I was of course drawn to this formally, for the beautifully inked lettering, and also for the rather curious (and arguably contentious) phrase "Religion is the Daughter of Heaven." But I really fell in love with it as I started to started to notice its misspellings, corrections, and the curious choice of placing greatest emphasis on the word THE! A double "is" under religion, as it seems the first