In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame tonka truck and stands up on its

and stands up on its own when open

14 1/8" x 10 1/8" and in overall good antique condition

Feels very Bauhaus era (I thought perhaps German or Austrian from a distance) but also very Japanese

watercolor of a green pigeon

The vase is signed with what looks like "Sena" on the bottom

In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame tonka truck and stands up on itsA perfect 19th birthday present if I ever saw one though also for anyone who can remember being nineteen, in my case very distantly! One certainly wonders what all happened that year in the life of the Frank Ellis who drew this in 1864 during the Civil War, with the arching stalks and capillary like branches of what I take for boughs of a fruit tree having a bit of the mournful quality of a weeping willow. But, yet, a pot of blooming flowers right at