"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait folk art religious and a hook at one

and a hook at one end

I think we can just glimpse some laundry hanging from the porch of the house to dry

crayon and pencil on construction paper

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

I would just hang it on the wall and leave it alone

"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait folk art religious and a hook at oneThis 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