Girl with Spools Antique Painting on School Slate vintage Japanese toy with a couple of stray

with a couple of stray pencil marks on the lower part of the drawing

Paper size is 20 x 16 1/2"

circa 1970s

with no flaws or aging to the paper that I can see

Girl with Spools Antique Painting on School Slate vintage Japanese toy with a couple of strayI thought this sweet little painting Victorian era, I'd think on an old school slate would make a great gift for an emerging seamstress, or anyone handy with a needle and thread, really. I love how the spool to her left appears to be falling from the sky, like a shooting star, and she reminds me of a waif from Dickens or the like, with this moment signaling her destiny yet to unfold! All of this is made even better by the old gold paint on the wood