Portrait of a House and its Inhabitants: 19th Century Ink and Inkwash Drawing with Collage hammock and which has a fantastic

and which has a fantastic presence and gravitas that I think far exceeds its small size

with the basketry seeming Native American

I find those letters absolutely gorgeous (looking as if modeled on a Hills alphabet block set) and of course always love a make do sort of intervention

this one portraying a White-Wiged (meant to say White Winged) Scoter

and making use of three color plates plus a black key plate

Portrait of a House and its Inhabitants: 19th Century Ink and Inkwash Drawing with Collage hammock and which has a fantasticPhotos do no great justice to this one hard to manage the glare and the frame without washing out the drawing and losing the detail of the figures in the windows but I promise it is much better in hand and I think really very wonderful, and quite unusual too. The house was drawn by hand, ink and ink wash watercolor, while the figures in the windows are carefully cutout and pasted down engravings lithographs, with watercolor on top. I've never seen