Chopping: Very Charming 19th Century Four Vignette Graphite Drawing conk painting with the urn and flowers

with the urn and flowers cut out and pasted to the backing paper in the true theorem stencil manner

One of my very favorite things found at Brimfield—beautifully crafted

I wonder who the Nelly was who he or she was thinking about

and the rather manic decorative flourishes that animate every square inch of the piece

and one driving off the edge of the page altogether

Chopping: Very Charming 19th Century Four Vignette Graphite Drawing conk painting with the urn and flowersThis came out of a large c. 1870s century folio filled with all sorts of things, including a whole notebook of geometric perspective drawings, listed separately, and an assortment of handwritten notes on everything from wax flower making to casting. Included were a handful of single pages with perspective drawings and notes and then two graphite drawings of a different ilk, this and a second also listed, each featuring four related vignettes; here,