Finely Dressed Young Woman at Piano, c. 1840s Folk Art Portrait in Original Burl Maple Frame helix so strikingly graphic

so strikingly graphic

There is a finely carved border around the perimeter on both front and back as well as three rows of three lines on the spine

Quite finely done

and especially whole "pictures" like this--and with a satisfying density and wildness to the moss here

While I have found some others of the larger

Finely Dressed Young Woman at Piano, c. 1840s Folk Art Portrait in Original Burl Maple Frame helix so strikingly graphicHappily a lovely local shop owner friend messaged me when this lovely came in to her shop, knowing I would like it, and indeed I very much do. C. 1840s, mixed media on paper, rendered in a combination of graphite, charcoal, watercolor and pastels I believe, in gorgeous original period burl maple frame. I don't know much about the history of pianos, but believe the one here is a c. 1830s upright cabinet piano (often towering things, extending up to 7