Two Houses with Gestural Trees, Henry Hinkel Crayon Drawing, 1913, Lancaster NY antique masonic embroidery There are a couple of

There are a couple of tiny scratches in the quartz and perhaps some very aging to the silver of the beak

I've learned that dogfish are thought to have the longest gestation period of any vertebrate (up to 24 months) and practice a form of live birth called yolk sac viviparity--basically

with light general wear and a bit of staining to the silk

as there are two well worn holes near the bottom

and the there are eye holes and two holes at the sides by which one could thread ribbon in order to wear it

Two Houses with Gestural Trees, Henry Hinkel Crayon Drawing, 1913, Lancaster NY antique masonic embroidery There are a couple ofOne of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster, NY, who wrote his name many times all over it including all over the back side of this drawing. I always love a naive house drawing, but here especially for the trees paired with each of houses, as if expressive of each of their natures, with the tree dramatically draping over the side of the yellow house seeming as if clinging to it really,