Self-reflexive 19th Century Watercolor Rose with Torn and Taped Stem profiles and there is just a

and there is just a tiny bit of wrinkling to the paper along the bottom edge at the center

not painted on top of it

especially prominent antlers

No major tears

Watercolor in excellent condition

Self-reflexive 19th Century Watercolor Rose with Torn and Taped Stem profiles and there is just aI am a bit obsessed with this one. It is a fine, c. mid 19th century watercolor of a rose, which was very precisely cutout and pasted down onto this piece of card (by it's original maker I believe). But in that cutting process, I presume, the paper stem of the watercolor rose tore, and so they pasted it down above. And so, the presence of that broken stem, which casts just a bit of a shadow onto the page, tells us not just that the rose itself was cut