19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers sales advice 10 1/2" l x 7

10 1/2" l x 7 5/8" t x 5 1/4" w

giving this bucolic landscape a bit of an edge and amplifying the sense of nature as a vastly more powerful force than our little rowing boater at left or the tiny flying ducks at bottom right

known by the Name of Foxes

architect and avid collector who had a great collection of puppets and masks

touching thing

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers sales advice 10 1/2" l x 7This is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, this otherworldly baby boy on blue blanket, seemingly a giant in relation to the tree beside him, perhaps my favorite of all. (And reminding me a bit of the phenomenal "electric pencil" drawings of James Edward