In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame forest green That's very much the case

That's very much the case with this hand-colored CDV of a young fellow identified on verso as C

super sharp

The frame is sturdy and stable but will wobble a little if you try

with sharp points to spear and hold the meat on one side

structural sound

In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame forest green That's very much the caseA perfect 19th birthday present if I ever saw one though also for anyone who can remember being nineteen, in my case very distantly! One certainly wonders what all happened that year in the life of the Frank Ellis who drew this in 1864 during the Civil War, with the arching stalks and capillary like branches of what I take for boughs of a fruit tree having a bit of the mournful quality of a weeping willow. But, yet, a pot of blooming flowers right at