Sweet Naive 1880s Graphite Drawing of Hillside Village with Church repetitive taking their different colors from

taking their different colors from a wide variety of cigarette brands

also as pictured

dated August 8

and who was represented by the gallery

On the side of the chop is incised text

Sweet Naive 1880s Graphite Drawing of Hillside Village with Church repetitive taking their different colors fromI'm really smitten with this sweet little "naive" pencil drawing of a hillside village, one of two in the shop that came from a larger collection of drawings executed by the unknown artist on a Grand Tour encompassing Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Norway. I love everything about it, perhaps the way the row of trees march neatly up the hill behind the village most of all, punctuated by a cross at the very top, but also those tiny benches, all those