Portrait of a House and its Inhabitants: 19th Century Ink and Inkwash Drawing with Collage hammock with the basketry seeming Native

with the basketry seeming Native American

remaining very lush and crisp and as if it might have been painted yesterday

and a hook on the front that latches tight

but in this case a paper alphabet with hand-colored pictures to boot

dates to the 1820s if not a little earlier

Portrait of a House and its Inhabitants: 19th Century Ink and Inkwash Drawing with Collage hammock with the basketry seeming NativePhotos do no great justice to this one hard to manage the glare and the frame without washing out the drawing and losing the detail of the figures in the windows but I promise it is much better in hand and I think really very wonderful, and quite unusual too. The house was drawn by hand, ink and ink wash watercolor, while the figures in the windows are carefully cutout and pasted down engravings lithographs, with watercolor on top. I've never seen