Minnie! Signed 1872 Graphite Portrait with Miniature Portraits on Necklace and Earring carved bone bird with bluish-gray around the lip

with bluish-gray around the lip

and which he noted on the drawing

really wonderful

given it's creation at the museum operated by a future circus man

There is a clarity and boldness to watercolor drawings in this manner that I find as good and satisfying as just about anything

Minnie! Signed 1872 Graphite Portrait with Miniature Portraits on Necklace and Earring carved bone bird with bluish-gray around the lipI really really love this Minnie, who looks to me maybe 15 years old or so, both lovely and awkward and seeming right in the middle of coming into herself. I also love that this is something of a triple portrait, with miniature portraits at her neck and hanging from her ear. Wonderfully earnest and clearly invested with love, right down the carefully inked Spencerian "Minnie" at bottom center. Signed Ida J. Tracy at lower left and dated Feb 7, 1872 at