Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Blanch, c. 1873 x-acto knife set 15 1/2” x 6 5/8”

15 1/2” x 6 5/8” t x 5 7/8” d and in very good antique condition

And then two more carved bands

I like how the thin strips of wood drawing a line between one house and the other and then again on either far side seem to suggest that this neighborhood might extend ad infinitum in either direction--ah

around the time of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace

Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Blanch, c. 1873 x-acto knife set 15 1/2” x 6 5/8”Four of these I found together, only one of them dated on the back, locating them all I think in 1873. It seems they may each have been done by a different school girl each with a different name signed to the back, as well as a different subject named on the front. (Perhaps collected by a teacher?) A customer recently noted to me that naive drawings of this sort make her heart beat faster and the same is true for me, just pure joy, and also offering a