Tiny Acrobats, Very Wonderful Earlyish 19th Century Ink Drawing in Tramp Frame painted dog The wooden blocks themselves were

The wooden blocks themselves were hand-painted

with a great zig zag of white teeth and pink blush on the cheeks

the only flaws seem to be the irregularities in the glaze that are original to the piece

with the minty/seafoam paint original to it I believe

Tiny Acrobats, Very Wonderful Earlyish 19th Century Ink Drawing in Tramp Frame painted dog The wooden blocks themselves wereLove at first sight with this little drawing I swear I'll never get over the marvelous whimsy and immediacy of naive drawings made some 150 years ago, and to my sensibilities they feel all the more so when tiny, like secret windows into interior worlds long ago, whose survival defied all the odds. Two little girls here being held aloft by what looks to me like two women wearing pants, each little girl holding flowers, and with a bird in cage between