Ellie Acker's c. 1840s Watercolor Map of Four Middle States Plus Maryland and Virigina industrial object Skillfully carved with a lovely

Skillfully carved with a lovely intricacy to the neck of the bottle and "walls" at either end of the cage

Rhodes himself fulfills a lesson in perspective by filling the open pages of the pre-printed book with a summation of his life:

On the front side

painting itself is 3 7/8" wide

Ellie Acker's c. 1840s Watercolor Map of Four Middle States Plus Maryland and Virigina industrial object Skillfully carved with a lovelyOne of two more maps today by Ellie Ackers, by whom I had one other, of the southern states, sold last week. C. 1840s, this one depicts "the middle states plus Maryland and Virginia" as Ellie writes neatly at the bottom of the page. I love the boldness of the color, which nearly obscures the ink drawn written details, which note states, rivers, lakes, bays, and mountains, and a couple of cities and I'm glad to see New York in blue (though not