Lonely at the Top: c. 1830s Graphite and Charcoal Drawing of Obelisk Monument roses watercolor It sure seems to me

It sure seems to me like an actual cannonball

I don't come across hand-carved heart shaped boxes like this very often

(For me this box also very much embodies the joy of looking and learning

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Lonely at the Top: c. 1830s Graphite and Charcoal Drawing of Obelisk Monument roses watercolor It sure seems to meThe momument portrayed here, I know from a little searching, is the Obelisk at Newtown Park in Dublin, erected in 1727 by Viscount Lord Allen as a monument mausoleum for his wife (she was ultimately buried elsewhere, and legend has it that Joshua Allen, the 2nd Viscount of Stillorgan, had his favourite horse buried beneath it instead!) In any event, this drawing fairly closely follows an engraving of it published by Fisher, Son & Co. London, in 1832,