Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School EWA The watercolor landscape she is

The watercolor landscape she is set amid (with stream running through the middle of it which she seems ready to magically float across) is shaped like two overlapping hearts

I especially love the huge painterly blue sky of this one--just right against the soft

perceiving them as adding to the aura of things that are already charged with history and tradition and made to be used

The glazing is great too--a purplish-gray that is subtle but cheerful

it makes me wonder whether it wasn't the original drawing for a Punch magazine cartoon

Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School EWA The watercolor landscape she isThis is one of second batch, just in, of several antique math and geometry notebooks from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them, and happily so. This is the mother of them, Samuel Gifford's from 1832, with some 90 pages completely filled on front and back. It features beautiful Spencerian + Fraktur headers throughout plus tons of geometric diagrams carefully drawn with compass and ruler, including a few enhanced with watercolor,