Unusual 19th Century Painted and Collaged Pennsylvania Valentine in Silver Gessoed Frame quebecois this rower feels like something

this rower feels like something of an archetype

This wonderful antique "Mosaic Work" parquetry set

and so gorgeous in their natural color

in substance and even more so in implication and application

I guess the brilliant blue bits of paper hanging on to the surface are remnants of some sort of label

Unusual 19th Century Painted and Collaged Pennsylvania Valentine in Silver Gessoed Frame quebecois this rower feels like somethingLove, love. I found this one in Lancaster County, PA, and it's unlike another I've I've seen, with the hearts and stars constructed of paper, cutout and pasted down, with the manner of painting on them akin to grain painting on wood frames and boxes. Wonderfully bold, fantastically rich color, just great and all the better I think by having done by "your friend, Robert Mallery." The poem reads: Acquaintance is a trivial thing Love, they say is blind