Purple Finch on Pine Cone Dotted Branch, Lovely Antique Watercolor blue paper and nice with a fair

and nice with a fair bit of air around it

9" x 6 3/8" and in very good condition

but I love looking at it anyway and surely with some effort  someone better than me could puzzle it out

but is in very good condition

Purple Finch on Pine Cone Dotted Branch, Lovely Antique Watercolor blue paper and nice with a fairThere's always room for another bird in the flock, I'd say this a lovely late 19th c. watercolor rendering of a purple finch, done after Audubon I believe. With a wonderful richness of color and variety of patterns forming the finch's feathers, and sweetly pinecone dotted branch. 6 1 2 x 6 3 4 and in good condition, watercolor on heavyweight paper, with faint ink writing along bottom, looks like the name and address of the maker, but hard to fully