Young Man with Many Animals, Curious Old Real Photo Postcard gray scale watercolor but it's a watercolor indeed

but it's a watercolor indeed

early 19th century I would guess

named Ariel

embracing a sweetheart - while looking straight at us with an expression that seems some combination of eager and sly

and with a lot more life left in it

Young Man with Many Animals, Curious Old Real Photo Postcard gray scale watercolor but it's a watercolor indeedI would really love to know everything about the young man in this photo, who appears to have a rat perched atop his hat, a bird on his shoulder, a dog in one hand and what? a log??? in the other! An animal whisperer one has to think! And perhaps it was termites infesting the log, or fleas infesting the dog, that left what appears to be a trail of almost microscopic little bites across the surface of the photo, which I can't feel at all on the