Very Exuberant Markmaking! Mid 19th Century Penwork Woman in Hat on Horse in Period Frame modern Japanese textile what I especially love about

what I especially love about him and the horse both is all of the different postures they can be manipulated into

I made one repair to re-secure a loose specimen at the very end of the book

with frame then painted around it

The eclipsed sun is jet black

and scalloped edges along the bottom

Very Exuberant Markmaking! Mid 19th Century Penwork Woman in Hat on Horse in Period Frame modern Japanese textile what I especially love aboutTotal love at first sight for me with this one, starting with this woman's wonderful, very folky, wide eyed and double browed face. I've got a great love for 19th century penwork drawings, which were very much a thing, but much less so for the ones that perfectly mimic examples published in instructive books of the period it's the expressive singularity that makes them special to me, as very much the case here, this one 1850s or so I believe. A