R.F Abbott 1880 Hand-drawn Student Map wood carving despite the loss of his

despite the loss of his feet

has quite an  presence

which I especially love for the pips (the black black and shape of these clubs makes me swoon

making the surface all the more interesting

so I am not 100% certain

R.F Abbott 1880 Hand-drawn Student Map wood carving despite the loss of hisI'm not totally sure why I'm so into this old map, done by an R. F. Abbott in 1880 I think it might be seeing "Dominion of Canada" in writing, and that it makes the far north both look far more exciting that the United States! Surely this was a student assignment focused on islands, capes, and coastal waters, but the effect looking at it now is to make it feel like there is vast open territory yet to be explored, which makes me at least very hungry to