Buck with Bright Eyes and Soaring Antlers, Beautifully Rendered 19th Century Graphite Drawing flower specimen The breathing instruments inspire

The breathing instruments inspire

and they are pretty worn

I only recently learned about album amicorum  (Latin for "book of friends") or liber amicorum

and with maximum energy given to carving his heeled boots

Buck with Bright Eyes and Soaring Antlers, Beautifully Rendered 19th Century Graphite Drawing flower specimen The breathing instruments inspireI'm continuing to dig out of a stack of paper acquired from a favorite PA paper dealer when I was down for the Allentown show nice when you have a pile that keeps delighting you as you pull from it, with this stag greeting me square in the eye! Beautifully rendered in graphite and jumping right off the page, as if just startled in the woods and now acutely attentive, determining whether to flee. Feels like both portrait and metaphor. 6 5 8" x 5 1 2",