George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns photograph of coral with a beautiful patina to

with a beautiful patina to the wood

) Marvelous too

I could spend all day arranging and playing around with them

The image is as atmospheric as the scene itself

and general toning to the paper

George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns photograph of coral with a beautiful patina toOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, this one not full (if only!), but with a handful of very lovely drawings in it, several very carefully done pattern designs included and one stand along gouache on paper pattern painting loose inside its pages that I'd frame straight away. Photos show pretty much all of the pages, with short descriptions below them identifying a few as drawn from geometric "solids models" and