SOLD Marvelous Early 19th C. New England Theorem Painting, Woman with Lamb brass shoe just Cabbage

just Cabbage

and the binding is a bit fragile but it is holding together more or less ok and the writing throughout is dark and clear

bottom line

to land it a sweet spot where it feels pretty classic too

but first the box

SOLD Marvelous Early 19th C. New England Theorem Painting, Woman with Lamb brass shoe just CabbageAmong my favorite finds ever I think, and just the sort of early theorem painting I am always wanting to find. New England c. 1815 30 I know for sure, and the seller I purchased it from bought it in the early 1980s at auction from Eldred's on Cape Cod. I love the directness of the gaze of our woman in blue with little lamb wrapped in her arms seeming a picture of gentleness and goodness, and yet also looking perhaps just a bit defiant, as if to say