Wonderful Early 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Peacock Drawing in Original Frame antique school textbook and surrounded by a decorative

and surrounded by a decorative pattern of tiny brass nails

"toot toot toot"

I just think the hand-painted face is pretty great

which to me possess the same sort of charm as old school girl drawings and watercolors of the very same

the soldier looks to me like quite like a robot

Wonderful Early 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Peacock Drawing in Original Frame antique school textbook and surrounded by a decorativeMy photos do not justice to this marvelous drawing, the presence and charm and richness of which I'm not able to capture fully (while also trying to avoid glare) but if no one falls in love with it, this is one I'll be more than glad to keep for myself. To my eye it's just a wonderful thing, just the sort of early naive drawing I'm perpetually in search of, with this lovingly, delicately rendered peacock at the center, proud and humble at once,