Edmund Hawley's 1831 Cut Paper and Ink Drawn Valentine pre-columbian vessels I just love the specificity

I just love the specificity of the imagery

and what a simultaneously  whimsical and very lovely thing

and energetically stippled all over spots

20 7/8” x 11 3/4” x 2 7/8”

Edmund Hawley's 1831 Cut Paper and Ink Drawn Valentine pre-columbian vessels I just love the specificityI surely would not much have enjoyed living in the 1830s, but I'm invariably smitten with the naive watercolors and ink drawings and cut paper love tokens of that decade, especially. This one, which appears to have been given to an Edmund Hawley of Norfolk (CT I believe) from an Alanson Bunnel on Dec. 2, 1831, is lovely example, combining cut paper hearts and diamonds (made by folding the paper) and ink drawn flowers and flourishes. I've turned up one