Edmund Hawley's 1831 Cut Paper and Ink Drawn Valentine pre-columbian vessels 7/8" across at opening

7/8" across at opening

or awkward or empathetic

to my sensibilities

thanking Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos

Edmund Hawley's 1831 Cut Paper and Ink Drawn Valentine pre-columbian vessels 7/8" across at openingI 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