Wonderful Early 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Peacock Drawing in Original Frame antique school textbook the soldier looks to me

the soldier looks to me like quite like a robot

perhaps inspired by the style of Creative Playthings toys and similar

I believe it is quite old and made of walnut

and surrounded by a decorative pattern of tiny brass nails

Nicely fashioned fashioned from scrap aluminum

Wonderful Early 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Peacock Drawing in Original Frame antique school textbook the soldier looks to meMy photos do not justice to this marvelous drawing, the presence and charm and richness of which I'm not able to capture fully (while also trying to avoid glare) but if no one falls in love with it, this is one I'll be more than glad to keep for myself. To my eye it's just a wonderful thing, just the sort of early naive drawing I'm perpetually in search of, with this lovingly, delicately rendered peacock at the center, proud and humble at once,