19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers berlin work 10 1/4" x 8"

10 1/4" x 8"

bobbing and weaving task of marketing

When I spotted these they reminded me of the Schoenhut toy circus chairs and stands I like so much

someone at some point took care to re-purpose the pair of figures

chocolates

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers berlin work 10 1/4" x 8"This is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, this otherworldly baby boy on blue blanket, seemingly a giant in relation to the tree beside him, perhaps my favorite of all. (And reminding me a bit of the phenomenal "electric pencil" drawings of James Edward