Sarah Dechant's 1882 Drawing Notebook, Catawissa, Pennsylvania trade card and the old dark green

and the old dark green paint

and there is some wear around the edges plus nicks here and there

12 3/4" t x 2 7/8" w x 1 1/8" d

One glaze skip and a bit of irregularity original to the piece

I'd guess it dates to the late 19th or early 20th but am not entirely certain

Sarah Dechant's 1882 Drawing Notebook, Catawissa, Pennsylvania trade card and the old dark greenDated 1882, this was the drawing notebook of a Sarah Dechant of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in which she executed 22 drawings that I presume were part of course in learning the basics of line, shading, perspective, etc. And quite a nice job she did all done in graphite, the drawings are crisp and precise and many of them quite graphically satisfying things, which it would be easy to cut from the hard covered sketchbook to frame perfect for hanging in a