Fantasy Landscape with Boater: 19th Century Sandpaper Drawing, Framed as Found pips 14" across with handles

14" across with handles

this is a lovely

1820s-30s or so

which unlatch

Easily mounted to a wall via holes at either end of the iron plate

Fantasy Landscape with Boater: 19th Century Sandpaper Drawing, Framed as Found pips 14" across with handlesWhat an interesting array of folk art picture making techniques there were in the 19th century, sandpaper drawings perhaps the most curious of all. Instantly recognizable, they were made using a combination of charcoal and marble dust, typically applied to a sandpaper like surface, with the marble dust lending a sort of silvery sparkle. This is a quintessential example, with wonderfully dense, fluttery and silvery foliage framing a river view, a tiny