19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Blue Bonnet, Sunflowers, Strawberries painted wood fishing float with overall surface wear and

with overall surface wear and and some fading of the white lotus pattern such that it shows a soft pale blue

and the like

Taken in a contemporary context

or any sort of gathering oriented toward grazing--or just for bedside snacks

Larger measures 7 1/8" l

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Blue Bonnet, Sunflowers, Strawberries painted wood fishing float with overall surface wear andThis 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, with the people especially soulful this wild eyed pink cheeked girl in her blue bonnet a perfect case in point, looking a bit cat like, and also fiercely determined, and also perhaps possessed! The dramatic curve