Marvelous 19th C Ink + Watercolor Drawing Illustrating Gridding and Perspective nautical I wasn't totally sure about

I wasn't totally sure about these when I purchased them online-- sometimes it can be so hard to tell

Very good vintage condition

Especially great in the windowsill—or maybe pop an electric candle inside and use as a bedside night light

all of which just adds to its sweetness

and I believe it was most likely made by a Napoleonic prisoner of war while in captivity

Marvelous 19th C Ink + Watercolor Drawing Illustrating Gridding and Perspective nautical I wasn't totally sure aboutIt was pure delight to find this drawing, wonderfully illustrating how to "enlarge or diminish by means of a square," and then one point perspective, with eye of the scope held by our heroine serving as the vanishing point. I really love that even as they illustrate systematic scaling up or down of a particular image, the two gridded women have entirely different sorts of faces (though they share the same fabulous gown). And then this fabulous all