Memoir of Charles Henry Porter by E. Goodrich Smith, 1849, with Wooly Mammoth Endpaper Drawing mahogonay who studied at RISD and

who studied at RISD and taught at the Deerfiled Academy in Deerfield

she takes refuge in a print shop

and what I believe was a combination of ink and graphite drawing the hair

with detailed spine

This fantastic

Memoir of Charles Henry Porter by E. Goodrich Smith, 1849, with Wooly Mammoth Endpaper Drawing mahogonay who studied at RISD andI am forever opening old books in hopes of finding drawings on the end papers so a happy surprise to find this one, which I take for a drawing of a wooly mammoth. Perhaps it was a bit later that the graphite drawing was enhanced with ink, I'm not sure but I really love the inked arrow at lower right, pointing out the snake wrapped around the tree! Perhaps that snake is signaling things to come, but in the meantime our mammoth seems a very serene