Fierce Looking Lion! Large Late 19th Century Ink Drawing in Period Frame complete set optical illusion cards like they always existed in

like they always existed in the ether and were just waiting to be put to paper

and really love the shape of it

snaking back and forth with no apparent function other than to deliver one more pop of color to complement those blooms

so full of life and just transcendently good

Fierce Looking Lion! Large Late 19th Century Ink Drawing in Period Frame complete set optical illusion cards like they always existed inAs with so many Victorian era drawings, this large pen and ink drawing of a lion was based on a published one with a little searching I identified the source, which appeared in "Real Pen Work: Self instruction in Penmanship, published in 1882. (Included as last photo.) The published one made use of Spencerian calligraphic flourishes for the fur of the lion but whoever created this drawing did their own thing, discarding the curlicues in favor of more