Girl Riding Giant Dog, Naive Victorian Pencil Drawing folk art toys With a little googling one

With a little googling one can photos of a rainbow array of these

this fabulous bright red-orange and black hand-painted ceramic flower frog could perfectly well be used to hold a few flowers in place

from Maine and Eastern Canada) basket

which the four small holes on the lid and front of the box indicate it once had

and I'd guess one of a kind

Girl Riding Giant Dog, Naive Victorian Pencil Drawing folk art toys With a little googling oneThe more Victorian era naive drawings and watercolors I look at, the more I've come to recognize specific subjects this is the second drawing of girl riding a giant dog and having dropped her hat that I've found, the both way more primitive but both clearly based on the same popular image. Together with what I'm sure are many more versions out there, they thus become studies in theme and variation, revealing much about their makers through comparison.