Tiny Acrobats, Very Wonderful Earlyish 19th Century Ink Drawing in Tramp Frame painted dog but the drawing is still

but the drawing is still dark and clear and fabulous

The wooden blocks themselves were hand-painted

with a great zig zag of white teeth and pink blush on the cheeks

clearly hand-painted and also very cheerful

This is a complete set of British Ogden Cigarettes "Optical Illusion" cards

Tiny Acrobats, Very Wonderful Earlyish 19th Century Ink Drawing in Tramp Frame painted dog but the drawing is stillLove at first sight with this little drawing I swear I'll never get over the marvelous whimsy and immediacy of naive drawings made some 150 years ago, and to my sensibilities they feel all the more so when tiny, like secret windows into interior worlds long ago, whose survival defied all the odds. Two little girls here being held aloft by what looks to me like two women wearing pants, each little girl holding flowers, and with a bird in cage between