Leaf Studies, Rebecca Pillsbury's 1847 Notebook of Ink-stamped and Labeled Specimens, Nashville, NH pattern blocks I'll never get over my

I'll never get over my love for these sorts of kid drawings

even better for the bleeding of the iron nails against the green

both formally accurate and metaphorically correct

Mediterranean

but perhaps they are related

Leaf Studies, Rebecca Pillsbury's 1847 Notebook of Ink-stamped and Labeled Specimens, Nashville, NH pattern blocks I'll never get over myI was really excited to find this, purchased from a seller in New Hampshire, not far from where it was created close to two centuries ago, in the no longer extant town of Nashville, NH. The work of a Rebecca Pillsbury, inscribed on the front inside cover along with the date, it features fourteen neatly composed pages of ink stamped leaves (sometime looking a lot like graphite rubbings, but I am pretty certain all pressed in ink), with each of the leaf