Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s bronze seal and then the point at

and then the point at which the surface of the liquid touches the stem of the hydrometer gives a measure of its relative density

I would keep the board out on the coffee table all of the time

2) an unnamed Byzantine sculpture

is especially lovely--and fairly unusual in having a handle

Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s bronze seal and then the point atThis drawing takes me straight to a park in New York, sitting on a bench and watching this woman who has surely made a daily habit of coming to feed these birds. While notes on the drawing ("red and blue dots" written on the woman's shoulder, and "brilliant blue and green birds" at bottom right) suggest that this was a quick sketch in advance of a more finished drawings, I think the looseness and lack of color, combined with the way her hair falls