Hunting Dogs, Mare and Foal, Double Sided Later 19th Century Ink Sketches hand-painted porcelain bear looking out the windows

looking out the windows

including doing a backbend

I've done a fair bit of searching and can't find a published deck that the imagery on these matches closely

and Wilson streets in Portland

and looks to me rather smitten with Miss Elsie

Hunting Dogs, Mare and Foal, Double Sided Later 19th Century Ink Sketches hand-painted porcelain bear looking out the windowsThis came from a later 19th century sketchbook found in Pennsylvania last summer, which included a few wonderful folk art watercolor drawings of a very different nature that I pulled out and quickly sold; going through some piles this week I came back across this one though and find it both sides of it too charming to throw into the summer flea market pile. These hunting dogs have a lot of life in them I think, and I especially love the face on the