#in my defense the spine is apparently labeled 'wats'

Isaac Watts Merrill (1803-1879) holding a hymnal of Isaac Watts (1674-1748), painted by Samuel Jordan, Haverhill, MA, 1831. This image has been sitting in my downloads folder labeled "Wattception" for months and it took me an embarrassing amount of time to reconstruct why.

#in my defense the spine is apparently labeled 'Wats'#but you can't see that at this resolution #and the spelling makes me wonder why Jordan wasn't caught MORE often #in his parallel career as a counterfeiter #evangelical and experimental #much depends on variety of taste #the past is another country