Antique Frontier Scene (?) Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame mcm puzzle I think it would be

I think it would be just the perfect thing to hang in a guest room

and which I think may just be a few stray fibers

With handwritten notes along the bottom

hand-painted in underglaze blue with stylised flowerheads at their centers and loop and dot borders

leaving the woman and her charming

Antique Frontier Scene (?) Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame mcm puzzle I think it would beI'm not entirely certain what is going on in this evocative little watercolor, but I really really love it, with its big dark sky enveloping what looks like a western frontier structure to me, and cowboy looking figures standing next to what I assume is a fire. Considered together with the deer watercolor surely by the same artist, which I just listed, my guess might be that these were done as first hand sketches out west, late 19th century or so,