Latitia Heston's Thrice Handed Down Miniature Ink and Watercolor Map of Europe with Handwritten Provenence Envelope pliers whimy and even better one's you

and even better one's you don't have to look through a scope to see

or as a caricature satirizing the rise of aspiring women authors

and the two pots are easily removed

depicting what I first took for mermaids but believe may rather represent Lamia—a mythological child-eating monster and

dramatic triangular tail fins

Latitia Heston's Thrice Handed Down Miniature Ink and Watercolor Map of Europe with Handwritten Provenence Envelope pliers whimy and even better one's youThis is the sort of thing that breaks my heart and makes me glad to be human. Just over 2 inches in diameter, it is a tiny ink and watercolor map of Europe on paper, done with extreme care (can you imagine?) by a Latitia Heston, mid 19th century or so, who signed her name to the reverse, following a verse, that indicates it was made as a token of friendship: In all the varying scene Which fate or fortune send When distance intervene Remind thee of a