"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait school sampler I find this snapshot quite

I find this snapshot quite extraordinary

Loss around one eye as evident and old repair/repainting around the other I believe

I myself might be inclined to use it as a vase rather than a watering can (or simply to put it on a shelf to display as an object) but the handle on the back certainly makes it functional for watering the plants

and rather unwieldy

I just thought--think--it's beautiful

"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait school sampler I find this snapshot quiteThis is to remember me The grass is green The rose is red This is left When I am ded. Signed what looks like Peter S. Burgard; I have turned up a Peter Gurgard born in 1822 in Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, married in 1850 in Erie, NY, which seems about right to me, period wise and in terms of the costumes here but I don't know for certain. There were a few scraps of notes included with it (see photos) noting it was purchased along with a 1829 fraktur