Woman Watering Her Garden Beds, Wonderful 19th Century Folk Art Sandpaper Drawing in Period Frame wallpaper print block with this sampler showing a

with this sampler showing a range of techniques

Whether the latter is meant to be its partner or its child I am not sure

16 7/8" l x 7/8" w and in very good antique condition

who I believe also did these

with graphite sketches all over both sides--birds and tree and nest and umbrella and cork screw and saw and more

Woman Watering Her Garden Beds, Wonderful 19th Century Folk Art Sandpaper Drawing in Period Frame wallpaper print block with this sampler showing aNine out of ten 19th century sandpaper drawings portray dreamy vistas sailboats on water framed by rolling hills, maybe with a piece fantasy architecture perched someone. I love those, but if there were ever a sandpaper drawing made for me, I'd say this wonderfully naive, uncommonly intimate one is it look at this woman's neatly gridded, carefully tended garden beds! It seems quite sure to me that the maker of the drawing was the gardener herself, as