Edmund Hawley's 1831 Cut Paper and Ink Drawn Valentine pre-columbian vessels 20 7/8” x 11 3/4”

20 7/8” x 11 3/4” x 2 7/8”

I just love the specificity of the imagery

thanking Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos

7/8" across at opening

(Maybe it was originally carved it as a box lid but its maker decided it was just right as a stand along thing

Edmund Hawley's 1831 Cut Paper and Ink Drawn Valentine pre-columbian vessels 20 7/8” x 11 3/4”I surely would not much have enjoyed living in the 1830s, but I'm invariably smitten with the naive watercolors and ink drawings and cut paper love tokens of that decade, especially. This one, which appears to have been given to an Edmund Hawley of Norfolk (CT I believe) from an Alanson Bunnel on Dec. 2, 1831, is lovely example, combining cut paper hearts and diamonds (made by folding the paper) and ink drawn flowers and flourishes. I've turned up one