Very Exuberant Markmaking! Mid 19th Century Penwork Woman in Hat on Horse in Period Frame modern Japanese textile and even less often with

and even less often with information about its maker noted by a family member on reverse--so I was quite delighted to find this one

it will be your responsibility if purchasing this to make sure it lives well into the future

flushed face

I made one repair to re-secure a loose specimen at the very end of the book

I've just learned these hand-painted jointed figures are Amos and Sandy (thus the A on the chest of the black figure)

Very Exuberant Markmaking! Mid 19th Century Penwork Woman in Hat on Horse in Period Frame modern Japanese textile and even less often withTotal love at first sight for me with this one, starting with this woman's wonderful, very folky, wide eyed and double browed face. I've got a great love for 19th century penwork drawings, which were very much a thing, but much less so for the ones that perfectly mimic examples published in instructive books of the period it's the expressive singularity that makes them special to me, as very much the case here, this one 1850s or so I believe. A