Girl with Giant Black Dog and Fairy Lady, 1870 Naive Watercolor Drawing, Framed portugese with their great black borders

with their great black borders like frames around paintings

with those seven precisely positioned

and maybe place a magnifying glass nearby

Such a lovely little book

Girl with Giant Black Dog and Fairy Lady, 1870 Naive Watercolor Drawing, Framed portugese with their great black bordersImages 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