C. 1900 Ink, Inkwash, Pencil Drawing of Two Hunted Deer antique wooden train 5 3/8" x 3 3/8"

5 3/8" x 3 3/8"

This is a great

and though there are others fancier

I think this now may be my favorite old hand-painted postcard I've found

I am pretty certain the silk itself measures 5"x7"

C. 1900 Ink, Inkwash, Pencil Drawing of Two Hunted Deer antique wooden train 5 3/8" x 3 3/8"This delicate ink and ink wash drawing of two hanging deer was done on the back of the title page of a 1898 copy of the The Strand Magazine, a British periodical featuring short fiction and general interest articles. One wonders the drawing was inspired by a story inside, or whether the magazine was taken on a hunting trip for evening reading and the deer drawn from life. I find it quite elegiac, with fallen log on the ground amplifying a sense of