Map of The Garden of Eden, 1783 British Ink on Laid Drawing, Framed linen not at all fragile now

not at all fragile now

8 3/8" x 5 3/16"

is a really striking rich orange with hand-painted giant yellow lily and graphic black leaves

and on one side some of the blue bleeds into the cream

One of the things I love most about old folk carved whimsies is that even when representing fairly common forms -- chain links

Map of The Garden of Eden, 1783 British Ink on Laid Drawing, Framed linen not at all fragile now(Much better in person, both bolder and more precise feeling and one can just feel the age of the paper even through the glass) Pretty special I think, a loose drawing from the partial 1783 notebook of an Alexander, last name unknown, listed separately (which includes what seems to be of a bit of astronomy, a bit of geometry, a bit of history and what not.) I don't believe I've ever seen such a matter of fact sort of map of the Garden of Eden before,