Chas. Frey 1898 Lancaster PA Drawing Book with Excellent Graphics antique steel mold I don't know that the

I don't know that the artist--it is signed Elysik--was a great painter

lending the painting a bit of extra aura and moodiness

which shows through a cutout in the top of the box

I might mount it on the wall and hang a few things from its arms

This just struck me as rather poetic and wonderfully lyrical--two looping knots of worm at top and bottom

Chas. Frey 1898 Lancaster PA Drawing Book with Excellent Graphics antique steel mold I don't know that theThis drawing instruction book was published in 1889 in Lancaster, PA by Charles H. Frey, a Lancaster PA boot and shoe merchant, and includes instructions for a mail in drawing contest at back. I love old drawing instruction books which are also useful in providing something of a source key to naive drawings that show up in other places and really love the graphicness of line drawings against black ground here. Plus a sweet inscription from Elizabeth