Prudence Wells's (Shelburne, MA) Lovely Early 19th Century Penmanship Notebook wwII and nice with a fair

and nice with a fair bit of air around it

but rather just love them as stand alone drawings

Some nice crustiness to surfaces of the wood too

and those mustached profiles do look rather French to me

I find this very old tramp art frame super evocative

Prudence Wells's (Shelburne, MA) Lovely Early 19th Century Penmanship Notebook wwII and nice with a fairI made a trip to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine this week and scooped up a few old paper things, this early penmanship notebook, the work of a Prudence Wells of Shelburne, Massachusetts among them. (And I believe I've placed her, born in 1799, in Shelburne, Franklin, MA, married to a Thomas Nims in 1825, and living until to the age of 90 in Greenfield, MA.) Based on that, and its content, I believe this notebook dates to the late 1810s