Cottage and Scissors, Sketchbook Drawing by Emma Ackerley, Sing Sing New York, 1870 cast bronze just about 100 years later

just about 100 years later

though I might just find a good spot to lean it

I'd guess is by the same maker and which makes for a great companion to this one

) I especially love the lightning bolt-like rendering of the propeller of the Kawasaki

Cottage and Scissors, Sketchbook Drawing by Emma Ackerley, Sing Sing New York, 1870 cast bronze just about 100 years laterPlenty of foxing and stains on this old sketchbook page of drawings done by one Emma Ackerley in 1870, but I love the drawings so much theres no way I could pass it by, and I find this combo of cottage with green tile roof and open scissors below strangely satisfying. Great details too, especially the shutters and curtains of the cottage, points on the picket fence, and tiny little pump out front. Signed not once but three times by our Emma, dated