Very Fine 1840s Miniature Family Portrait Watercolor Signed William Bone hand-colored lithograph and a useful box too

and a useful box too

With a cardboard covered in green silk which is really the only thing that shows age and makes me think probably early 20th c

Not totally my usual thing

I believe it dates to the first quarter of the 20th c

it's ready to loop over a nail or hook on the wall

Very Fine 1840s Miniature Family Portrait Watercolor Signed William Bone hand-colored lithograph and a useful box tooI've developed quite a weakness for 19th. c. miniature portraits, but it's rare in my experience to come across one depicting a whole family, as I believe is the case here the parents at right and their three daughters at right. It immediately makes me think of early 19th c. novels a la Jane Austen, which swirl around the complex rituals of finding appropriate matches for eligible young women an so I immediately empathize with these three, imagining