Fierce Looking Lion! Large Late 19th Century Ink Drawing in Period Frame complete set optical illusion cards keeping spring near at hand

keeping spring near at hand

to my great delight

with a bit of the card visible around the edges

in old red paint

like they always existed in the ether and were just waiting to be put to paper

Fierce Looking Lion! Large Late 19th Century Ink Drawing in Period Frame complete set optical illusion cards keeping spring near at handAs with so many Victorian era drawings, this large pen and ink drawing of a lion was based on a published one with a little searching I identified the source, which appeared in "Real Pen Work: Self instruction in Penmanship, published in 1882. (Included as last photo.) The published one made use of Spencerian calligraphic flourishes for the fur of the lion but whoever created this drawing did their own thing, discarding the curlicues in favor of more