Great Britain and Ireland: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map antique pips This drawing

This drawing

housed in a red satin draw string pouch embroidered with an ace of diamonds on one side and a five of diamonds on the other

this mix of round ones are a combination of un-dyed and dyed bone

I especially love that up-turned big toe

nude but for her cap

Great Britain and Ireland: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map antique pips This drawingI forever have an eye out for hand drawn maps of all sorts, and especially ink and watercolor ones of this ilk, which I believe were done in school as part of geography class (can you imagine?!) These I purchased from a seller near to me in Massachusetts, who dates them to 1840 or so based on a map of the United States done by the same person, which included Texas Territory (Texas became a state in 1845). To me these are beautiful in a similar way to