Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame folk art triplane not quite wide enough to

not quite wide enough to provide a backdrop for all of them

8 1/8" x 6 1/8 x 1/2" and in very good condition

(Thinking of Mother Earth as we give gifts

As I've learned more about kindergarten inventor Friedrich Froebel and the series of "Gifts" he created to give form and structure to discovery based learning

Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame folk art triplane not quite wide enough toMy photos do no justice to this drawing, as I was fighting glare to take them, and the character of the brown paper, which has the quality of a lightweight brown paper bag paper, doesn't come across but it makes the drawing richer (and the blacks are richer than one has a sense of here, too.) Anyway, I think it is quite a nice drawing, late 19th c. or so, which has an allegorical feeling about it with the shored boat looking abandoned, and it and its