Mid 1800s Pencil and Watercolor Portrait of Young Woman in Fancy Dress button work sampler I like to imagine this

I like to imagine this sign once hung above a big back booth at a local diner

While I can't say for certain it is that old

the blue of his shirt really is Yves Klein blue--like pure powdered pigment--and the green of his pants really does almost glow

I believe likely c

Mid 1800s Pencil and Watercolor Portrait of Young Woman in Fancy Dress button work sampler I like to imagine thisI found together this and two other mid 19th century pencil drawings (listed separately) done it seems by three brothers of the same Hudson, Ohio Peck family. This one is signed Joseph H. Peck on reverse; I have found record of him, his brothers Edward and William, and several more siblings, all who appear to have been born in the 1830s 50s. This drawing, with orange watercolored ribbons and bows, may be the most refined of the bunch, and it appears