Of Upright Planes: Early 1800s Notebook Page with Watercolor Diagrams in Double Sided Frame or carved butter. churn lid The slate on the back

The slate on the back is blank

All this adds up to a beautiful

and they fill me at least with a whole lot of joy

which is much aged but still retaining some of its glorious lapis blue paint

What a flirtation

Of Upright Planes: Early 1800s Notebook Page with Watercolor Diagrams in Double Sided Frame or carved butter. churn lid The slate on the backThis is one of three double sided pages from an early 19th c. Newburyport, MA school notebook I'm listing clearly the work of one person which came from the collection of longtime New England collectors Bev and John Titus. I love early watercolored lettering and diagrams just about as much as anything in the world (and have also been kind of obsessed with sun dials lately) so just swooned when I saw these. The side headed "Of Upright Planes" shows