Partial But Exceptional 1816 Cut Paper Love Token with Ink and Watercolor and Many Delights French drawing (There is a whole website

(There is a whole website devoted to Sunderland with a full survey of these in particular--more here

here--I assume all of the sketches in advances of larger watercolors/theorem paintings

so increasingly it is unusual ones that draw me

These signs appear to be silkscreens (the red and blue are super lush and vivid) printed on a nice weight cream board

but nice on its own like a snowflake as well as a study in geometry

Partial But Exceptional 1816 Cut Paper Love Token with Ink and Watercolor and Many Delights French drawing (There is a whole websiteThis intricate cut paper scherenschnitte love token certainly shows it 200+ years (dated 1816 inside one of the hearts), but it is such a special one, which, happily, someone not too long ago took pains to stabilize and protect so that it might endure for many years to come. The aging of the blue paper from which it was cut is itself a very beautiful thing, and the sun star at center especially so, but the greatest delights here come from closer