Jack the Giant Killer, Antique Ink Drawing on Inside Cover of School Book compliment cards stitching is tight

stitching is tight

One sees quite a lot of "Native American-inspired" drawings

or with small nails in a few places at different heights so that it slinks across the wall a bit

and I want to see it on the kitchen counter filled with daffodils

which reminds me a bit of Pima Native American baskets

Jack the Giant Killer, Antique Ink Drawing on Inside Cover of School Book compliment cards stitching is tightI know I have a tendency to say it, but this drawing has to be one of my favorite things ever, and a perfect reminder of why drawings are my favorite things among all things, possessing an immediacy, intimacy and spontaneity unlike anything else. How to beat this smiling Jack the Giant Killer, his paddle looking club cheerfully raised, portrayed as himself very much the giant among his foes? (First published in the early 18th century, the gore heavy