"Bend in a Stream with Three Ducks" by Edith Penman, Amer., (1860-1929) Tempera on smooth cool gray wove

on smooth cool gray wove china paper

That Daumier was known to indulge in a little black humor

Thorpe often favored a dramatic black background to focus the viewer's attention on the vibrant color and delicate silhouette of blooms and foliage

the colors bright and unfaded

and "Pendeltons Lithography Boston" at lower right

"Bend in a Stream with Three Ducks" by Edith Penman, Amer., (1860-1929) Tempera on smooth cool gray woveEtching. ca. 1890, ed. unknown, 6 7 16 x 9 3 16, signed in script in the plate below the image along with an etched dragonfly remarque, on thick stiff cream wove paper. Light soil, a few faint spots of foxing mostly in the margins, and browning at margin edges from contact with the previous frame. The artist was a member of both the New York Etching Club and the Byrdcliff Arts & Crafts colony in Woodstock, New York.