Ellie Acker's c. 1840s Watercolor Map of the Southern United States machine age which I find wonderfully graphic

which I find wonderfully graphic as she laid them down

perhaps one amid a stack or pile of others

I assume this one was done by a boy c

they're all Magritte-ian fellows speaking to The Treachery of Images

Ellie Acker's c. 1840s Watercolor Map of the Southern United States machine age which I find wonderfully graphicYou know I love a hand drawn map, even more so a watercolored one, and I love how the color on this one, depicting "the Southern states" nearly obscures its details, such that, if one didn't know better, it might be read as pure abstraction. Of course the outlines give it away instant recognizability that speaks to it as being a much a symbol icon as map. The inclusion of Arkansas (admitted to the Union on June 15, 1836, as the 25th state) date the