C. 1900 Ink, Inkwash, Pencil Drawing of Two Hunted Deer Ballantine beer cans This hatted and bespectacled man

This hatted and bespectacled man reminds me rather of James Joyce--a smart

and it appears that Mickey paired with the yellow tractor is pretty rare

It is signed on the underside but I can't quite decipher the signature

The snowy ground

rough-edged pals

C. 1900 Ink, Inkwash, Pencil Drawing of Two Hunted Deer Ballantine beer cans This hatted and bespectacled manThis delicate ink and ink wash drawing of two hanging deer was done on the back of the title page of a 1898 copy of the The Strand Magazine, a British periodical featuring short fiction and general interest articles. One wonders the drawing was inspired by a story inside, or whether the magazine was taken on a hunting trip for evening reading and the deer drawn from life. I find it quite elegiac, with fallen log on the ground amplifying a sense of