19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers sales advice Perhaps ship mates

Perhaps ship mates

right down to those beautifully rounded fingers

touching thing

one eye raised as if to interrogate us

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers sales advice Perhaps ship matesThis is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, this otherworldly baby boy on blue blanket, seemingly a giant in relation to the tree beside him, perhaps my favorite of all. (And reminding me a bit of the phenomenal "electric pencil" drawings of James Edward