Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card wood and wire trap and based on a bit

and based on a bit of research I believe most likely made by James Fallows & Sons of Philadelphia

I think it has the immediacy of a drawing

but I'm very glad it exists as a drawing

General wear to the box and light wear to surface of blocks

Dangling Grapes, Mother with Child, Very Finely Painted c. 1850s Watercolor on Card wood and wire trap and based on a bitMaybe not exactly my typical style, but this (and a second by the same maker listed separately) is amazing hard to understand scale from photos, but it took me getting out a magnifier to confirm it as a watercolor rather than a print, so finely and precisely executed. Perhaps there were once four of them, representing the four seasons? This mother, dangling grapes just out of reach of her child, a bounty of fruit beside her, seems to suggest summer,