Naive Antique Ink and Graphite Drawing of Colonial Ship Hannah lush landscaoe Black ink on white illustration

Black ink on white illustration board

5 1/4" x 4 1/4"

Remember the command of God

and with a wonderful face that gives him a bit of a seal-like aspect

I view them as readymade painterly sculptures

Naive Antique Ink and Graphite Drawing of Colonial Ship Hannah lush landscaoe Black ink on white illustrationTaped to the front of this drawing when I found it, and also written on the back of the frame, is a note that George Washington commissioned Capt. Nicholas Broughton of Marblehead (near where I found this) and the schooner Hannah into the service of the United Colonies on Sept 2, 1775. I'm not sure where our little man in tricorn hat at lower right is meant to be Washington, or Broughton, or someone else, but I sure love him, and the two little