SOLD Beautiful Baby! C. 1850s Folk Art Oil Painting on Un-stretched S.N Dodges, NY Canvas blue and gold a pasted verse along with

a pasted verse along with a dedication inside (looks like this was made for Nellie)

7 1/16" x 3 1/2"

plus orange and black glass eyes and tiny brass nails for the nostrils

and tableware

with an Elvis stance and attitude

SOLD Beautiful Baby! C. 1850s Folk Art Oil Painting on Un-stretched S.N Dodges, NY Canvas blue and gold a pasted verse along withI'm not someone who goes gaga over babies, but I did swoon when I spotted this one quite a charmer of a painting and quite a radiant, full of life and breath, child! Also nice that the back of the un stretched canvas is stamped "S. N Dodges Artist and Painter's Supply Store, 189 Chatham St, corner of Oliver St, N York, which seems to have operated 1820s 1850s or so (as per the Met Museum) so pretty certainly of that period. Better in hand, quite