One Beautiful Page of Early 19th Century Hand-marbled Paper (Ledger Cover) carved female nude 9 1/4" x 7 1/4"

9 1/4" x 7 1/4"

Losses as evident and some chipping around the edges of the plaster but no notable

and perhaps the perfect reward for the home bread and cookies maker

This old folk painting of a basket of peaches has a few obvious tears in the canvas

otherwise all are well bound

One Beautiful Page of Early 19th Century Hand-marbled Paper (Ledger Cover) carved female nude 9 1/4" x 7 1/4"Found digging through a bin of papers at a shop in Nashville, and too lovely and scarce not to grab. Despite the more recent handwritten note on the reverse, I believe this was not an end paper but rather the front or back cover of an early mid 19th century ledger, probably from a mensuration notebook filled with beautiful headers and calculations! Hand marbled, rich color, heavyweight paper, gorgeous. 8 3 4 x 10 1 2. Wear and a bit of loss around the