Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Allie, c. 1873 socket wrench 9 3/8 x 7 5/8

9 3/8 x 7 5/8 as mounted

Fifteen of each

and I could look at that sunlit tree against painterly clouds and radiant blue sky all day

pendant flags

Again this marvelous combination of rich red and gold

Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Allie, c. 1873 socket wrench 9 3/8 x 7 5/8Four of these I found together, only 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 hard to beat