Buck with Bright Eyes and Soaring Antlers, Beautifully Rendered 19th Century Graphite Drawing flower specimen or perfect on the vanity

or perfect on the vanity filled with perfume

It's really a lovely thing

with nice jointed corners to boot

One sees a fair number of antique lacquered papier mache snuff boxes

Buck with Bright Eyes and Soaring Antlers, Beautifully Rendered 19th Century Graphite Drawing flower specimen or perfect on the vanityI'm continuing to dig out of a stack of paper acquired from a favorite PA paper dealer when I was down for the Allentown show nice when you have a pile that keeps delighting you as you pull from it, with this stag greeting me square in the eye! Beautifully rendered in graphite and jumping right off the page, as if just startled in the woods and now acutely attentive, determining whether to flee. Feels like both portrait and metaphor. 6 5 8" x 5 1 2",