Chas. Frey 1898 Lancaster PA Drawing Book with Excellent Graphics antique steel mold which its mother indulges while

which its mother indulges while also looking off into the distance

The illustrative surface design

I don't know that the artist--it is signed Elysik--was a great painter

where classmates included David Smith

This just struck me as rather poetic and wonderfully lyrical--two looping knots of worm at top and bottom

Chas. Frey 1898 Lancaster PA Drawing Book with Excellent Graphics antique steel mold which its mother indulges whileThis drawing instruction book was published in 1889 in Lancaster, PA by Charles H. Frey, a Lancaster PA boot and shoe merchant, and includes instructions for a mail in drawing contest at back. I love old drawing instruction books which are also useful in providing something of a source key to naive drawings that show up in other places and really love the graphicness of line drawings against black ground here. Plus a sweet inscription from Elizabeth