Very Exuberant Markmaking! Mid 19th Century Penwork Woman in Hat on Horse in Period Frame modern Japanese textile Such a delight to find

Such a delight to find this one in New Hampshire the other day

triangularly shaped slab of a slate-like stone

I've just learned these hand-painted jointed figures are Amos and Sandy (thus the A on the chest of the black figure)

I made one repair to re-secure a loose specimen at the very end of the book

plucked from a larger lot all taken at a water circus

Very Exuberant Markmaking! Mid 19th Century Penwork Woman in Hat on Horse in Period Frame modern Japanese textile Such a delight to findTotal 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