Laura's Rose, 19th C. Naive Graphite Drawing on Lined Paper farm by the ocean This is one of new

This is one of new batch of antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

3/4" inches wide by 5/8" tall

which makes me think of a carved figurehead on the prow of a ship

ready to be loaded up and taken on a plain air painting outing

Johnson Creek

Laura's Rose, 19th C. Naive Graphite Drawing on Lined Paper farm by the ocean This is one of newThe Laura who signed this above the lower border does have a last name, but she wrote it with so many flourishes I find it very hard to read! She clearly liked her flourishes, seemingly adding them wherever she could, but I think she got the rose really right, with a nice wildness to the leaves furling in every direction, and a feeling of this rose as a very living thing, as if swarming with bumblebees! 8 1 8 x 5, overall good condition, with some