Willis Hutchinson 1883 Double-Sided Sketchbook Drawing: Animals, Rocker, Boy with Hoop swan and not quite square

and not quite square

I'm listing this antique embroidery on linen pin cushion just as I found it -- stuck full of pins

I love the fact that making these reflected an increasing popular interest in the natural world and also a greater freedom for women and girls--an excuse to venture out on their own toward to the sea

Ink is sometimes blue

Willis Hutchinson 1883 Double-Sided Sketchbook Drawing: Animals, Rocker, Boy with Hoop swan and not quite squareThis double sided drawing came from the small sketchbook of a Willis Hutchinson, dated 1883 84 almost all the pages were already loose, so Im listing the drawings individually. These drawings are just my sort of thing, filled with people and houses and animals and ships and all sorts of other little things, from a croquet game to a pocket watch to a slingshot, plus many sorts of chairs and kites and a unicycle too! With pretty amazing attention detail