Watercolor of a Gladiola, From Nature, by Marian Marcelin, 1878 Cuban souvenir keep me clean

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sacks of coal

which shows some bubbles and very light seams up the sides

where she was a founding member and longtime

at an antiques shop in Columbia PA

Watercolor of a Gladiola, From Nature, by Marian Marcelin, 1878 Cuban souvenir keep me cleanI bought and sold a couple of other 19th century watercolors by this same Marian Marcelin a few months ago, then went back to my source last week and found a couple more. Marian did love her flowers! And she rendered them with a lot of care and attention to detail noting here "drawn from nature," and "Mrs. Woodrick Sea Cliff," I presume describing the location where this particular gladiola was blooming in September of 1878. Lovely, and the green of