SOLD Beautiful Baby! C. 1850s Folk Art Oil Painting on Un-stretched S.N Dodges, NY Canvas stuffed ball served as a member of

served as a member of the administration during the Great Depression

Board covers with handwritten title

more personal samplers that really get me

I've been on close watch for more of the like

One of two found together—“orchids and other hothouse plants” listed separately

SOLD Beautiful Baby! C. 1850s Folk Art Oil Painting on Un-stretched S.N Dodges, NY Canvas stuffed ball served as a member ofI'm not someone who goes gaga over babies, but I did swoon when I spotted this one quite a charmer of a painting and quite a radiant, full of life and breath, child! Also nice that the back of the un stretched canvas is stamped "S. N Dodges Artist and Painter's Supply Store, 189 Chatham St, corner of Oliver St, N York, which seems to have operated 1820s 1850s or so (as per the Met Museum) so pretty certainly of that period. Better in hand, quite