Emma Dilmore's Marvelous Bird and Girl and Flowers in Great Antique Lemon Gold Frame old toy animal and then the shoes have

and then the shoes have been painted with a terrific amount of detail: patterns of stripes

singular thing that certainly no one really needs

and was owned by the Acme Circus Operating Corporation

as if wanting just to shake hands but with those spikes getting in the way

Emma Dilmore's Marvelous Bird and Girl and Flowers in Great Antique Lemon Gold Frame old toy animal and then the shoes haveThis is one of several c. 1890s drawings by a brilliant young Emma Dilmore that I purchased from a seller near Kansas City, MO and just exactly the sort of watercolor drawing I am forever searching for. Double sided (reverse shown) but I think this purple crested, orange breasted bird floating in the air above two colorfully blooming plants wins, and gave it special treatment by placing it in a really lovely recently purchased 19th century lemon gold