Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS toy bowling Black ink on board

Black ink on board

the drawing here is mounted with (removable) archival tape to a piece of onionskin writing paper that matches it nearly exactly in color and which I wrapped around a piece of board for structure and then plugged with foam core and taped on the reverse side

some rusting and scattered paint loss to the interior

found in New Hampshire

The subject of Stradin's extensively researched book was a dress diary started in 1838 by a Mrs

Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS toy bowling Black ink on boardI read this painting as portraying a figure (whom I take for a woman) carrying a load (looks like bundle of kindling, maybe more) across her back through a winter landscape. The interruption in the bank of trees in the distance, precisely aligned with her position in the foreground, suggests that may be her path rather than to arrive at home at the house at right but either way this feels like a portrait of a place and rural life defined by the