Boy with Dog 19th Century Folk Art "Sandpaper" Painting filagree hairpin the White House

the White House

though someone would need to be pretty special to deserve one of these

It was purchased from an estate in Waban

with 1 1/2" tall lip

Iowa in the 1920s

Boy with Dog 19th Century Folk Art "Sandpaper" Painting filagree hairpin the White HouseThis marvelous thing is an antique "sandpaper painting" a technique popular in the mid 19th century, of creating charcoal drawings on paper coated with marble dust, which creates a surface with a fine grit like sandpaper. These are a pretty fascinating genre, typically monochromatic and most often depicting Hudson River landscapes, though one occasionally finds portraits and examples incorporating color, like this one. These most often were done by