Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame mini bowling pins but I like it as

but I like it as is

intimate way

4 1/4" x 3 1/6"

It's a bit confusing

(It is interesting--given the apparent use of cheesecloth here ---that the origins of the phrase

Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame mini bowling pins but I like it asMy photos do no justice to this drawing, as I was fighting glare to take them, and the character of the brown paper, which has the quality of a lightweight brown paper bag paper, doesn't come across but it makes the drawing richer (and the blacks are richer than one has a sense of here, too.) Anyway, I think it is quite a nice drawing, late 19th c. or so, which has an allegorical feeling about it with the shored boat looking abandoned, and it and its