Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame folk art triplane (Thinking of Mother Earth as

(Thinking of Mother Earth as we give gifts

Light wear to dust jacket and edges of spine

and I do believe the color on this one is about as good as it gets

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

This little petit point on wool embroidery just makes me happy

Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame folk art triplane (Thinking of Mother Earth asMy 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