Of Upright Planes: Early 1800s Notebook Page with Watercolor Diagrams in Double Sided Frame or carved butter. churn lid or some variation on it

or some variation on it

The slate on the back is blank

Sheet size 8" x 5 3/4"

and I do hope forever

this alligatored lapis blue against creamy white is about as good as is gets

Of Upright Planes: Early 1800s Notebook Page with Watercolor Diagrams in Double Sided Frame or carved butter. churn lid or some variation on itThis is one of three double sided pages from an early 19th c. Newburyport, MA school notebook I'm listing clearly the work of one person which came from the collection of longtime New England collectors Bev and John Titus. I love early watercolored lettering and diagrams just about as much as anything in the world (and have also been kind of obsessed with sun dials lately) so just swooned when I saw these. The side headed "Of Upright Planes" shows