Birds and Branches, Delicate 19th C. Pen and Ink Drawing in Period Frame booth bay maine the younger carefully groomed and

the younger carefully groomed and wearing a pinstriped suit

Up close it reads as if painted a dark red with this black

I know from another drawing from this sketchbook

Some old hand-painted postcards I love for their curiosity of their imagery and captions

as I assume this one is

Birds and Branches, Delicate 19th C. Pen and Ink Drawing in Period Frame booth bay maine the younger carefully groomed andI'm always tempted by Spencerian drawings of birds, found on Victorian calling cards and in autograph albums, but this one, rendered in red and black ink, is earlier than most of those, and how lovely perched on exuberantly branching, delicately leaf dotted branches in dark green, with sprig in beak, too. Plus this awkward, second partial one with a very eagle like eye at bottom! Cut down salvaged from a larger drawing or page at some point I presume,