Fine Framed Antique Graphite/Charcoal Drawing of Boy with Hat, Identified on Reverse (in German) the hangman but even more I love

but even more I love finding a lovely box with lots of notes inside--and happily this is both

though I did then take out a magnifier to examine most every inch of it

these were most definitely influenced by his kindergarten “Gifts” and very much in line with them

it looks like most of the original 5000 remain

they're just so pretty

Fine Framed Antique Graphite/Charcoal Drawing of Boy with Hat, Identified on Reverse (in German) the hangman but even more I loveQuite a fine small portrait of boy finely dressed for a hiking outing, hat in one hand (with its feather commanding the only use of watercolor) and walking stick in the other. In addition to its delicacy, for me it is the boy's slightly upward and sideward gaze that really makes the drawing, lending just a bit of mischievousness to his very pretty face. Very lovely. With handwritten information on reverse; it is a bit hard to read, in German I