Miniature Early 19th Century Pencil Sketch of Girl with Flowers and Bird animal friend the drawing unpacks as a

the drawing unpacks as a wonderful portrait of impotence and thwarted desire

It's a useful one

with a great sense of poetry to boot

The glaze is a cool white

Miniature Early 19th Century Pencil Sketch of Girl with Flowers and Bird animal friend the drawing unpacks as aThis is one of a handful of to my eye completely charming miniature drawings I purchased together, dating to the first or second quarter of the 19th Century, and thought likely to be of Virginia origin. It's tiny, but what a lot of wonderful detail and patten is packed in, down to her the girl's terrific ringlets, necklace, and hair wreath, and the teeny tiny bird perched on top of flower stalk in front of her. Super! 2 5 8" x 2 3 8" and in great