SOLD House with Delicately Detailed Porch, Barn, and Smoky Clouds, Ultra Atmospheric Mid 19th Century Sandpaper Drawing olympic peninsula and color very rich

and color very rich

just a useful

but otherwise the handle is in very good shape

upon which the title -“The Open Road” (The Ship’s Highway)—is hand-written

5" openings

SOLD House with Delicately Detailed Porch, Barn, and Smoky Clouds, Ultra Atmospheric Mid 19th Century Sandpaper Drawing olympic peninsula and color very richThe condition here is not perfect there is a tear to the paper coming down from the top edge mid right, and it shows a fair bit of overall toning but I really love it, very moody and appearing very much a portrait of a specific place. And it almost seems as if the paper were velvet, there is such a softness about it all. Such drama to those smoky clouds, framing the scene like parting curtains, and then what appears to be another trail of smoke rising