Annie Darragh, The Elder Sister, 19th C. Ink Drawing with SeeSawing Children on Reverse antiqueoil on canvas shape and warm dry patina

shape and warm dry patina

it feels quite tender and poignant as well as wonderfully strange

but sometimes a piece hits it exactly

2 1/8” t x 2” d x 3” across at handle

Annie Darragh, The Elder Sister, 19th C. Ink Drawing with SeeSawing Children on Reverse antiqueoil on canvas shape and warm dry patinaThe drawing of the "elder sister" book open, cross around her neck, and younger brother to either side is what first sold me on this 19th c. ink drawing, but there are more delights to be found everywhere, including those great baskets filled high with fruit, that energetically rendered tree (the source of the bounty I presume) with a little bird on a branch to the right side, and a series of scrolls announcing the drawing as the work of a young Annie