Delicately Rendered 1880s Pennsylvania Folk Ink and Watercolor Ledger Drawing of Native American Chief (Copy) watercolor drawing Feels super classic to me--and

Feels super classic to me--and of the perfect sort of hang alongside one's carved toy gun collection

and then each page devoted to two letters (with the exception of U and V sharing a half)

Wear/fraying to the green fabric (I do believe silk) on the underside and a couple of very small losses to the felt around the perimeter

MA this week felt quite timely given Harvard being so much in the news of late--this a cabinet card photograph of a painting of one-time Harvard President Edward Wigglesworth

Delicately Rendered 1880s Pennsylvania Folk Ink and Watercolor Ledger Drawing of Native American Chief (Copy) watercolor drawing Feels super classic to me--andThis is my favorite drawing I've had in some time, just the sort I go to Pennsylvania (and everywhere else) hoping to find. I know that it dates to right around 1880, and came from a ledger held by a young Burt Gemberling of Selinsgrove, Snyder County, MA. (Makes me think a bit of the drawings of Wayne Blouch, which I presented in an online viewing room in collaboration with Ricco Maresca a few years ago) Such a wonderful grace and delicacy to the ink