Very Exuberant Markmaking! Mid 19th Century Penwork Woman in Hat on Horse in Period Frame bottle with paper label with assorted scuffs and scrapes

with assorted scuffs and scrapes all to the good

A fun one--the unbreakability of which I have not tested

which is a bit sad

but a good one to hang in a kid's room now I'd say

dates to the 1840s or so

Very Exuberant Markmaking! Mid 19th Century Penwork Woman in Hat on Horse in Period Frame bottle with paper label with assorted scuffs and scrapesTotal love at first sight for me with this one, starting with this woman's wonderful, very folky, wide eyed and double browed face. I've got a great love for 19th century penwork drawings, which were very much a thing, but much less so for the ones that perfectly mimic examples published in instructive books of the period it's the expressive singularity that makes them special to me, as very much the case here, this one 1850s or so I believe. A