Great Britain and Ireland: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map antique pips perhaps watching fish swimming by

perhaps watching fish swimming by

often feeling as if revealing something about the interior life (of after life

and product of much more effort on the part of their maker

housed in a red satin draw string pouch embroidered with an ace of diamonds on one side and a five of diamonds on the other

Great Britain and Ireland: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map antique pips perhaps watching fish swimming byI forever have an eye out for hand drawn maps of all sorts, and especially ink and watercolor ones of this ilk, which I believe were done in school as part of geography class (can you imagine?!) These I purchased from a seller near to me in Massachusetts, who dates them to 1840 or so based on a map of the United States done by the same person, which included Texas Territory (Texas became a state in 1845). To me these are beautiful in a similar way to