Charles Foss Antique Sketchbook with Punning Drawings and Painted Flowers antique English box I think is just right

I think is just right

with one longer and narrower block meant to represent the trunk of a tree

this seascape feels rather like it was always there

I don't know a thing about the origins of this carved sculpture (which I don't think photos quite do justice)

Charles Foss Antique Sketchbook with Punning Drawings and Painted Flowers antique English box I think is just rightThis little notebook of sketches and paintings by a Charles A Foss feels a bit schizophrenic amid a series of quite clever (and I think quite fabulous) punning pencil drawings are a number of simple little paintings of flowers. The flowers are perfectly pretty, but it is the drawings I love, and in this case might be inclined to remove some of them from the sketchbook so as to frame them. (Happily, all drawings have blanks pages on the reverse, so