Executed by T.J. Pearce in Three Minutes: 19th Century Spencerian Ink Drawn Bird cat with great face and that my French was

and that my French was good enough

perhaps for his their kid to use to decorate their creations

And turns out the Gichner Ironworks

with her dog snuck beside her along the lower edge

as it is wider than it is tall) for drinking tea

Executed by T.J. Pearce in Three Minutes: 19th Century Spencerian Ink Drawn Bird cat with great face and that my French wasA very lovely early Spencerian (calligraphic) ink drawing of a bird (with a list of expenses on the back, making me like it all the more.) But what is especially good about this one is that not only was it is signed by its maker "executed by" a T. J. Pearce, I believe it reads but he (I presume) also noted the time it took to draw: "in three minutes." Which suggests, as if not already apparent, that he was quite a practiced Spencerian calligrapher. I