19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers sales advice right down to those beautifully

right down to those beautifully rounded fingers

one eye raised as if to interrogate us

Perhaps ship mates

10 1/2" l x 7 5/8" t x 5 1/4" w

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers sales advice right down to those beautifullyThis is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, this otherworldly baby boy on blue blanket, seemingly a giant in relation to the tree beside him, perhaps my favorite of all. (And reminding me a bit of the phenomenal "electric pencil" drawings of James Edward