(Freehand) Line and Form: 1880s Pennsylvania German Ink Drawing of Cabin with Conical Roof and Perfect Picket Fence ladle with marvelous patterning composed of

with marvelous patterning composed of dots and dots inside of dots which also reminds me of Aboriginal Australian paintings

which of course provokes my empathy all the more

and one can almost hear them chattering away

but I found them together

and with woodcut engravings animating most every page

(Freehand) Line and Form: 1880s Pennsylvania German Ink Drawing of Cabin with Conical Roof and Perfect Picket Fence ladle with marvelous patterning composed ofI know this ink drawing dates to right around 1880, and came from a ledger held by a young Burt Gemberling of Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA who also drew the portrait of the Native American chief listed today. I love a painstakingly rendered portrait of an architectural structure in this manner, attention given to every beam and, best of all here, to each post of the picket fence to either side. Looking closely, none of the very straight looking