4" long x 2 1/2" tall x 7/8" wide
conflating Italia and Lady Liberty herself
(I keep thinking of Lichtenstein's ben-day dots when I look at them
I find the ring of light cast across the lower portion of each photo here very lovely
Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box child 4" long x 2 1/2"Perhaps there is nothing as beautiful as a yellow pencil with a very sharp point formally, and as potential embodied, too. And though much stained, what a perfect yellow box, too. I've found records for W. S. Greenough, Boston, dating to as early as the 1860s, but believe this box likely dates to the earlyish 20th c. The pencils are a mix of Compton's, Dixon, Mongol, Ward's Boston, and a few others, some with erasers, some without, all in that perfect