Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame brass pique nails wonderful antique condition

wonderful antique condition

with the corners of jacks of each suit cut and inlaid into to corners of the board

Really quite wonderfully done

solid steel or iron with incised radial lines and a whitish-gray surface

certainly the screen is 19th century

Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame brass pique nails wonderful antique conditionMy photos do no justice to this drawing, as I was fighting glare to take them, and the character of the brown paper, which has the quality of a lightweight brown paper bag paper, doesn't come across but it makes the drawing richer (and the blacks are richer than one has a sense of here, too.) Anyway, I think it is quite a nice drawing, late 19th c. or so, which has an allegorical feeling about it with the shored boat looking abandoned, and it and its