Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women blue eyed boy the brass on the interior

the brass on the interior

” a the hugely popular Civil War magazine published in Philadelphia

called Yosegi in Japan

with the mark dating them definitively to between 1845 - 1865

in perfect cursive

Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women blue eyed boy the brass on the interiorI purchased these and several other pencil drawings by the same unknown artist from a dealer in Maine, who I believe purchased them some years ago from a notable Pennsylvania collection of naive drawings. Their maker certainly had a way with faces, and with conveying character through specific details, and I'm listing these two together as I imagine them as grandmother and granddaughter, with the elder home in her nightgown as the younger heads out to