Laura's Rose, 19th C. Naive Graphite Drawing on Lined Paper farm by the ocean and with a nice warm

and with a nice warm patina (I have not touched it)

This is one of new batch of antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

ready to be loaded up and taken on a plain air painting outing

3/4" inches wide by 5/8" tall

and lovingly made little object

Laura's Rose, 19th C. Naive Graphite Drawing on Lined Paper farm by the ocean and with a nice warmThe Laura who signed this above the lower border does have a last name, but she wrote it with so many flourishes I find it very hard to read! She clearly liked her flourishes, seemingly adding them wherever she could, but I think she got the rose really right, with a nice wildness to the leaves furling in every direction, and a feeling of this rose as a very living thing, as if swarming with bumblebees! 8 1 8 x 5, overall good condition, with some