William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller printmaking give this brown horse white

give this brown horse white spots

Much worn but sturdy and stable and more beautiful than in photos

made by Empire Brush Works of Port Chester

on Cathay")--which makes me wonder whether the original inspiration for the drawing was an image first painted on a teacup

and manipulating these exposed coils to produce a rough exterior surface

William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller printmaking give this brown horse whiteOf course I could not resist the beautiful calligraphic loops just inside this speller just shy of 200 years old, and especially what I take for a sharp featured little head and shoulders made up of tiny dots at left, which I imagine was a tiny portrait of a stern instructor! With wooden cover boards papered in blue (Webster's speller was the most popular of the day, known familiarly as the blue back speller) it is quite a lovely thing, with page