Dapper Gent and Lovely Lady in Yellow, Victorian Graphite and Watercolor Drawing figure with cap or instead

or instead

with some damage to the splint ash that holds one of the handles in place (the ash shows cracking

Quite and character and I think definitely not another out there like him

Simple hand-sewn string binding is still holding tight

Dapper Gent and Lovely Lady in Yellow, Victorian Graphite and Watercolor Drawing figure with cap or insteadSo many things I like about this drawing down to her tiny tiny tiny hands! Their matching extra long eyebrows might be my very favorite thing, including for the fact that they are just one of many things that "match" between them, from their tightly curled hair, to the bows at their necks, to the downward pointing "V" of his vest counterpointed by the upward pointing one formed by the bottom edges of her bodice. What a pair, who look positively