Birds and Branches, Delicate 19th C. Pen and Ink Drawing in Period Frame booth bay maine Later in life

Later in life

just all about color and pattern and labor

I know from another drawing from this sketchbook

(And I'm really smitten with the thin and slightly wavy lines of that W

Birds and Branches, Delicate 19th C. Pen and Ink Drawing in Period Frame booth bay maine Later in lifeI'm always tempted by Spencerian drawings of birds, found on Victorian calling cards and in autograph albums, but this one, rendered in red and black ink, is earlier than most of those, and how lovely perched on exuberantly branching, delicately leaf dotted branches in dark green, with sprig in beak, too. Plus this awkward, second partial one with a very eagle like eye at bottom! Cut down salvaged from a larger drawing or page at some point I presume,