Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Cassie (I think!), c. 1873 bioll anderson yellow sky behind her

yellow sky behind her

and relative strangeness of this one

done according to the Becker rather than Spencerian method

Cards measure approx 2 5/16" x 1 3/8" each

but it most certainly has the feeling of having been made by a spiritualist

Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Cassie (I think!), c. 1873 bioll anderson yellow sky behind herFour of these I found together, one of them dated on the back, locating them all I think in 1873. It seems they may each have been done by a different school girl each with a different name signed to the back, as well as a different subject named on the front. (Perhaps collected by a teacher?) A customer recently noted to me that naive drawings of this sort make her heart beat faster and the same is true for me, just pure joy, and also offering a