Naive 19th Century Graphite Drawing, Horse and Bird Symbiosis sewing caddy and smaller brass pins on

and smaller brass pins on either side

though I'd probably set it in an arrangement of objects or hang it somewhere--and am rather fantasizing about a whole wall of these

I just love this pair of birds gracefully perched on a  branch

both in and around this moody

There is one tiny brown spot on the paper near the body of the mouse and a visible "frame" on the paper where it lightened with age except where it was previously covered by a mat around the edges

Naive 19th Century Graphite Drawing, Horse and Bird Symbiosis sewing caddy and smaller brass pins onJust the sort of drawing that makes me love drawings so muchnot much fuss here, but such a perfectly true portrayal of symbiosis, with this duck or dove resting just perfectly in the cradle of the horses saddleand in return perhaps saving this horse from a heavier rider! To my eye, not one line more or less than there needs to be, just exactly right. C. 1880s; Ive found a birth record for Franklin David Rohr, to who it is attributed on the back of the