Yellow Water Lily, British 1884 Watercolor with Botanical Notes by Elsie M. Dudley hand-painted wooden sign a turkey for Turkey

a turkey for Turkey

giving them the look of targets---that set

Box not included

and the irregularity of the edge of the black paint makes me think it was made to please its maker rather than for sale

Yellow Water Lily, British 1884 Watercolor with Botanical Notes by Elsie M. Dudley hand-painted wooden sign a turkey for TurkeyIf there were ever a botanical watercolor that would make a perfectly complement to a collection of Arts and Crafts pottery, this I believe would be it! I purchased it from a British seller, from a portfolio of a series of botanical studies by an Elsie (Eliza) M. Dudley, the future wife or artist Thomas Campbell Bennett (1858 1948), an ancestor of the Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth I. It is accompanied by botanical notes about the Yellow Water Lily,