Girl Riding Giant Dog, Naive Victorian Pencil Drawing flirtation with a finely and wonderfully

with a finely and wonderfully carved wooden back (oak

It shows a few areas of loss on the sides (not visible when from front

I find this photograph pretty incredible

a bucolic landscape which I think quite likely portrays one of what were eventually 80 cottages along the beach built by Drake

Girl Riding Giant Dog, Naive Victorian Pencil Drawing flirtation with a finely and wonderfullyThe more Victorian era naive drawings and watercolors I look at, the more I've come to recognize specific subjects this is the second drawing of girl riding a giant dog and having dropped her hat that I've found, the both way more primitive but both clearly based on the same popular image. Together with what I'm sure are many more versions out there, they thus become studies in theme and variation, revealing much about their makers through comparison.