"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait folk art religious especially when the names of

especially when the names of the animals are written across their fronts in the very best manner of kid handwriting a la 1900 or so

I've searched and searched but found no other like this one

I take him for a coyote

and a hook at one end

which appears to have been signed on the underside (now very faint)

"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait folk art religious especially when the names ofThis is to remember me The grass is green The rose is red This is left When I am ded. Signed what looks like Peter S. Burgard; I have turned up a Peter Gurgard born in 1822 in Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, married in 1850 in Erie, NY, which seems about right to me, period wise and in terms of the costumes here but I don't know for certain. There were a few scraps of notes included with it (see photos) noting it was purchased along with a 1829 fraktur