Antique American Geometric Ink and Crayon Drawing Signed W.H. Voorhees carved stone boot and dogs of several species

and dogs of several species are all playing cricket together

poppy lark-spur and the like are accompanied by notes like "The insertion of the stamens into the calyx is a certain proof that the fruit produced by the flower containing them is good and wholesome

they are just beautiful

and numbered 4 of 4

Antique American Geometric Ink and Crayon Drawing Signed W.H. Voorhees carved stone boot and dogs of several speciesTo my eye this drawing is just about a perfect thing, and feels like a happy surprise every time I look at it. I have found mention of a few different W. H. Voorhees', most notably a Mrs. W. H. Voorhees of San Francisco who was active in the temperance movement (mentioned in the local paper on a visit to see her sister in Ohio in 1886), and who donated a campaign ribbon for the first Republican Party presidential campaign (1856) to the San Francisco