19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers strategy game board folky dollhouse scale hotel made

folky dollhouse scale hotel made of La Sorella tobacco boxes

Really three earrings in one

one happily still with an adventurous looking tiny figure standing inside

where it might spiral perpetually

for the box alone

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers strategy game board folky dollhouse scale hotel madeThis is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, this otherworldly baby boy on blue blanket, seemingly a giant in relation to the tree beside him, perhaps my favorite of all. (And reminding me a bit of the phenomenal "electric pencil" drawings of James Edward