In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame tonka truck just some staining here and

just some staining here and there

The bright yellow and orange rings around her almost suggest someone's viewing her through a scope from afar

and some crazing to the lettering

watercolor of a green pigeon

Pretty cool too

In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame tonka truck just some staining here andA perfect 19th birthday present if I ever saw one though also for anyone who can remember being nineteen, in my case very distantly! One certainly wonders what all happened that year in the life of the Frank Ellis who drew this in 1864 during the Civil War, with the arching stalks and capillary like branches of what I take for boughs of a fruit tree having a bit of the mournful quality of a weeping willow. But, yet, a pot of blooming flowers right at