Willis Hutchinson 1883 Double-Sided Sketchbook Drawing: Multiplication, Horse, Boats and Ships asian vase Perhaps for a baseball related

Perhaps for a baseball related card game

with little carved marks all over

On the underside of the base is carved "Willy"

and was honored with a retrospective  at Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2002

Certainly he was once attached to an armature via strings tied to the holes at his wrists so that he could perform acrobatic feats

Willis Hutchinson 1883 Double-Sided Sketchbook Drawing: Multiplication, Horse, Boats and Ships asian vase Perhaps for a baseball relatedThis double sided drawing came from the small sketchbook of a Willis Hutchinson, dated 1883 84 almost all the pages were already loose, so Im listing the drawings individually. These drawings are just my sort of thing, filled with people and houses and animals and ships and all sorts of other little things, from a croquet game to a pocket watch to a slingshot, plus many sorts of chairs and kites and a unicycle too! With pretty amazing attention detail