Lonely at the Top: c. 1830s Graphite and Charcoal Drawing of Obelisk Monument antique dominoes The fantastic scrimshawed drawings on

The fantastic scrimshawed drawings on the sides--of a man with dog facing a man with bird on one side

with plenty of surface wear as evident

the text is clear and completely readable

living first in NYC and later in New Hope

Lonely at the Top: c. 1830s Graphite and Charcoal Drawing of Obelisk Monument antique dominoes The fantastic scrimshawed drawings onThe momument portrayed here, I know from a little searching, is the Obelisk at Newtown Park in Dublin, erected in 1727 by Viscount Lord Allen as a monument mausoleum for his wife (she was ultimately buried elsewhere, and legend has it that Joshua Allen, the 2nd Viscount of Stillorgan, had his favourite horse buried beneath it instead!) In any event, this drawing fairly closely follows an engraving of it published by Fisher, Son & Co. London, in 1832,