SOLD Agnes Raiche's Completed Krone's 1882 Primary Course Drawing Book indian bag The quality and wear to

The quality and wear to that lacquer makes me fairly certain it is quite old

with the little wire-legged birds on either side riding along for company

and there is some wear around the edges plus nicks here and there

as are the edges of the pages

which to me possesses all the beauty of a Brancusi

SOLD Agnes Raiche's Completed Krone's 1882 Primary Course Drawing Book indian bag The quality and wear toAs detailed on the inside of the front cover, this particular volume (#6) in a series of Krone's Paragon Series drawing books was designed to teach "more difficult" exercises in shading, including cross shading, solids, etc. On each page is a printed example, at left, which the student, in this case Agnes Raiche, was to redraw exactly. I find seeing the two versions side by side quite pleasing to the eye, and think our Agnes did quite a good job! 9 1