19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers strategy game board I really love that curling

I really love that curling red tongue

with light wear and minor foxing along edges

Kirk at lower right

where it might spiral perpetually

for the box alone

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers strategy game board I really love that curlingThis is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, this otherworldly baby boy on blue blanket, seemingly a giant in relation to the tree beside him, perhaps my favorite of all. (And reminding me a bit of the phenomenal "electric pencil" drawings of James Edward