Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Cassie (I think!), c. 1873 19th century theorem watercolor and then these thin trails

and then these thin trails of lines surrounding them like a soft cloud

Some glare

attached via fat iron nails

two of them (8 1/4" x 6 3/4") with 18 pages

at copying the lessons on the opposite blank pages in pencil

Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Cassie (I think!), c. 1873 19th century theorem watercolor and then these thin trailsFour of these I found together, one of them dated on the back, locating them all I think in 1873. It seems they may each have been done by a different school girl each with a different name signed to the back, as well as a different subject named on the front. (Perhaps collected by a teacher?) A customer recently noted to me that naive drawings of this sort make her heart beat faster and the same is true for me, just pure joy, and also offering a