Marvelous 19th C Ink + Watercolor Drawing Illustrating Gridding and Perspective wooden ink pen 6” widest diameter

6” widest diameter

A few tiny chips to the bone and a few to the ebony--all minor

I've had a number of these old Czech "ramp walkers" characters in the shop

Plus the wear along the bridge of the nose

organizing office supplies on a desk

Marvelous 19th C Ink + Watercolor Drawing Illustrating Gridding and Perspective wooden ink pen 6” widest diameterIt 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