Charmingly Crude Early 19th C. Fabric Backed Hollow Cut Folk Art Silhouette conte and graphite drawing but with a bit of

but with a bit of pop

He looks eager to please but also quite determined to stay in place

somewhat more pronounced in photos than in hand

while the alternating

I love the succinctness of just "ARTS" now

Charmingly Crude Early 19th C. Fabric Backed Hollow Cut Folk Art Silhouette conte and graphite drawing but with a bit ofIt's the crudeness of this silhouette that makes me really love it, and find it her! very empathetic; no trained traveling silhouette artist or use of a tracing mechanism behind this one, just a homespun effort to render a likeness to best one could I think, and managing to impart her with a lot of character in the process. I opened it up for a closer look, and have documented it as such the silhouette cut from card, with black fabric (looks like a