Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Cassie (I think!), c. 1873 original inkblot tests all sturdy and stable

all sturdy and stable

and no matter how you arrange them

There is old repair of a split at one hand

Some wear to the edge of the wood at the head but in overall very good shape and really pretty

housed in an old "Flinch" box

Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Cassie (I think!), c. 1873 original inkblot tests all sturdy and stableFour of these I found together, one of them dated on the back, locating them all I think in 1873. It seems they may each have been done by a different school girl each with a different name signed to the back, as well as a different subject named on the front. (Perhaps collected by a teacher?) A customer recently noted to me that naive drawings of this sort make her heart beat faster and the same is true for me, just pure joy, and also offering a