RARE WATERCOLOR "LOVE KNOT" Dated 1786 7" x 8.75". Framed 9" x 13".

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RARE WATERCOLOR "LOVE KNOT" Dated 1786 Multiple lines of handwritten text weave around and through a grid of small diamonds, forming a knot. Verse at upper margin "Let us make a golden Talent of our Precious time for death is the mower of the Lilys in the prime. You are the Bloom old [...] like a Shadow life is a Dream and we are swallowed up in the downward rising stream". Inscribed lower margin "A Love Knot" and "True Love", and dated "AD 1786" and "May". Further adorned with tendrils, geometric devices and a concentric heart at each corner. 7" x 8.75". Framed 9" x 13".

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