Harriet's 1836 Penmanship Notebook Turned 1839-40 Scrapbook 1950s pinup drawing and nice long handle

and nice long handle

and 4 1/4" diameter and is in excellent condition

surely a little fading to the pink of the flowers and small loss to upper left corner

" The chair in this watercolor looks a bit like it

4 9/16” x 4 3/16” and in good condition

Harriet's 1836 Penmanship Notebook Turned 1839-40 Scrapbook 1950s pinup drawing and nice long handleOn one hand I'm sad to see much of the beautiful penmanship in this 1836 notebook covered up, but on the other hand I love its having been repurposed as a scrapbook a few years later including for how that reminds use that perfect penmanship was nothing special! Lots of layers of information embedded here, with rich juxtapositions both content wise and formally; I really love the push and pull between pasted down bits of printed text and the hand