19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Blue Bonnet, Sunflowers, Strawberries political cartoon drawing with spare but specific details

with spare but specific details

The tradition of Semamori began as a Japanese folk custom in the Edo period

and some roughness on the top of the other

and also a 19th century tradition of carving and painting vertebrae to resemble John Wesley (1703-1791)

There are irregularities original to its making

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Blue Bonnet, Sunflowers, Strawberries political cartoon drawing with spare but specific detailsThis is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, with the people especially soulful this wild eyed pink cheeked girl in her blue bonnet a perfect case in point, looking a bit cat like, and also fiercely determined, and also perhaps possessed! The dramatic curve