Laura's Rose, 19th C. Naive Graphite Drawing on Lined Paper bert in addition to several iterations

in addition to several iterations of W

balls 1 1/2" d

and I'd think more likely sometime late-ish 1910s-20s

which captures a cased museum-type display featuring "the original Bowie knife

with the instruction that on fair days the woman should be turned into the sun

Laura's Rose, 19th C. Naive Graphite Drawing on Lined Paper bert in addition to several iterationsThe Laura who signed this above the lower border does have a last name, but she wrote it with so many flourishes I find it very hard to read! She clearly liked her flourishes, seemingly adding them wherever she could, but I think she got the rose really right, with a nice wildness to the leaves furling in every direction, and a feeling of this rose as a very living thing, as if swarming with bumblebees! 8 1 8 x 5, overall good condition, with some