19th C. Naive Double-Sided Drawing: Urn of Flowers, Star articulated clown Really a marvelous thing that

Really a marvelous thing that is all the more wonderful in person

While one of these days I vow to try my hand at woodworking

I love everything about this photograph

I know that he was pulled out of an old estate in Deerfield

19th C. Naive Double-Sided Drawing: Urn of Flowers, Star articulated clown Really a marvelous thing thatOne very last one from a number of drawings I've list by the same (surely quite young) maker, 1870s or so I believe, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I like both sides on this one, but especially the loose confidence and great cheerfulness of this urn of flowers, which shows bleed through from a painted star on the other side, but it's so charming, who cares? 7 3 4" x 5 1 4". A