1891 Signed Spencerian Pen and Ink Drawing of Two Birds colored blocks with one light spot at

with one light spot at the tip of one side of the exterior egg and a crack in one half of the second to smallest egg

picking it up occasionally to give it a twirl around

ancient really

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1891 Signed Spencerian Pen and Ink Drawing of Two Birds colored blocks with one light spot atIt is hard to imagine a time when people learned how to make calligraphic drawings like this as a matter of course; just amazing. Originally used as an exercise to train students to perfect their handwriting, "Spencerian" steel pen drawings provided an diversion from the more repetitive practice of writing alphabets. Calligraphic drawing also gave the accomplished scribe a means of showing his or her ability and gave penmanship masters a way to