Chas. Frey 1898 Lancaster PA Drawing Book with Excellent Graphics antique steel mold lending the painting a bit

lending the painting a bit of extra aura and moodiness

The illustrative surface design

of desire among other things

though I quite like the little bunny seeming to be looking in on a caged animal from the outside

This just struck me as rather poetic and wonderfully lyrical--two looping knots of worm at top and bottom

Chas. Frey 1898 Lancaster PA Drawing Book with Excellent Graphics antique steel mold lending the painting a bitThis drawing instruction book was published in 1889 in Lancaster, PA by Charles H. Frey, a Lancaster PA boot and shoe merchant, and includes instructions for a mail in drawing contest at back. I love old drawing instruction books which are also useful in providing something of a source key to naive drawings that show up in other places and really love the graphicness of line drawings against black ground here. Plus a sweet inscription from Elizabeth