Girl Riding Giant Dog, Naive Victorian Pencil Drawing William palmer design different all the way around

different all the way around

This may just be my favorite little box ever

but also for the line work of the hair

While quintessentially mid-century

While I have found some others of the larger

Girl Riding Giant Dog, Naive Victorian Pencil Drawing William palmer design different all the way aroundThe more Victorian era naive drawings and watercolors I look at, the more I've come to recognize specific subjects this is the second drawing of girl riding a giant dog and having dropped her hat that I've found, the both way more primitive but both clearly based on the same popular image. Together with what I'm sure are many more versions out there, they thus become studies in theme and variation, revealing much about their makers through comparison.