Double-Sided Ledger Drawing with Rider in Raccoon Skin Cap abstraction 8 3/4" long x 5

8 3/4" long x 5 15/16" wide x 1 1/8" deep

long beard

but the interior was re-lined more recently in a red paper with raised velvet pattern

Use it as a little vase (I would love it filled with lily of the valley)

Double-Sided Ledger Drawing with Rider in Raccoon Skin Cap abstraction 8 3/4" long x 5I really need to (re)study my American History in order to be better at identifying the various conflicts portrayed on these old drawings on ledger paper, though one imagines the boy who drew them based them on some pretty questionable histories himself. Much of what I personally love about these sorts of drawings is how vividly and viscerally one feels they lived in the present in the imagination of the maker, who probably also played out these