Tiny Acrobats, Very Wonderful Earlyish 19th Century Ink Drawing in Tramp Frame old celluloid dice look close

look close

It is made of wood and the bark appears to be real

and features pencil writing on the side--hard to read but looks perhaps like the same of the shop where the set was purchased plus the name of the owner of the set

The first thing I thought upon finding this photo was of the Becher's straight-on photographs of houses and water towers

8 1/8" x 6 1/8" framed

Tiny Acrobats, Very Wonderful Earlyish 19th Century Ink Drawing in Tramp Frame old celluloid dice look closeLove at first sight with this little drawing I swear I'll never get over the marvelous whimsy and immediacy of naive drawings made some 150 years ago, and to my sensibilities they feel all the more so when tiny, like secret windows into interior worlds long ago, whose survival defied all the odds. Two little girls here being held aloft by what looks to me like two women wearing pants, each little girl holding flowers, and with a bird in cage between