Laura's Rose, 19th C. Naive Graphite Drawing on Lined Paper farm by the ocean which would make for easy

which would make for easy mounting on the wall

and lovingly made little object

ready to be loaded up and taken on a plain air painting outing

and with a nice warm patina (I have not touched it)

Laura's Rose, 19th C. Naive Graphite Drawing on Lined Paper farm by the ocean which would make for easyThe Laura who signed this above the lower border does have a last name, but she wrote it with so many flourishes I find it very hard to read! She clearly liked her flourishes, seemingly adding them wherever she could, but I think she got the rose really right, with a nice wildness to the leaves furling in every direction, and a feeling of this rose as a very living thing, as if swarming with bumblebees! 8 1 8 x 5, overall good condition, with some