Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS dotted square ended beak of the

square ended beak of the bird knocking against the iron plate with a really good clap

I never tire of these punch paper embroideries

9 1/8" x 6 1/4" x 1 3/8"

though it is unsigned and I am not certain of how old it is

which looks very smart and super graphic against the black paper ground

Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS dotted square ended beak of theI 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