Girl with Giant Black Dog and Fairy Lady, 1870 Naive Watercolor Drawing, Framed portugese What I know is that

What I know is that this came from a collection of watercolors mostly of water by a young woman of means that included views captured in Italian Lakes

From the dense clusters of rusty fat nails attaching the notched plank legs to the seat

with their great black borders like frames around paintings

perhaps WWI

with just very light wear

Girl with Giant Black Dog and Fairy Lady, 1870 Naive Watercolor Drawing, Framed portugese What I know is thatImages of girls with their dogs are fast becoming my favorite subject, and I'm definitely charmed by this one, which is wonderfully strange, as if an image from a dream which of course is often what makes children's drawings so compelling, which I believe is what this is. I assume this giant jet black creature is indeed a dog with a big stick in its mouth??? looming larger than life in the maker's imagination; and would guess it is her hat she is