Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler hand-painted object I'm forever looking for antique

I'm forever looking for antique sets of geometric solids made by Prangs or Milton Bradley

but no splits or cracks and still looks terrific

I've got a special weakness for paintings of apples

used to support a needle during the process of knitting

Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler hand-painted object I'm forever looking for antiquePhotos don't do much justice to this one a fight with glare and so not especially well lit when I was shooting it but hopefully details give a decent sense. Found in Pennsylvania this summer, it is a very early 1800s penmanship exercise, executed across a two page laid paper folio, in a roughly period frame, as found. And I must say the Viva La Plume in red inked fraktur lettering at top pretty much sold me right away! Then two main passages,