Keeping Watch, Late Victorian Painting of Young Beauty on Door mother and sons and of course for the

and of course for the wonderful color and ornate decoration covering every inch of her costume

Tiles measure 2" x 1" x 5/16"

landscape and dramatic cloud filled behind her

One is a rooster

Keeping Watch, Late Victorian Painting of Young Beauty on Door mother and sons and of course for theQuite a beauty, and beautifully painted, but what really makes this for me is her having been painted on the central panel of a much used large cabinet (I believe) door. As such, her looking over her shoulder pose seems very much one of waiting and keeping watch and to have opened this door would have been to directly meet her gaze. (To me she looks a bit weary of it all, too, as if thinking "you again?") She seems to me much more of the sort to have