1911 Schoolgirl Graphite Portrait of Soulful Looking Woman in Big Hat braided grass basket and one printed eye lost

and one printed eye lost

it won't quite stand up on it's own so just needs to lean lightly against something to stand fingers up

perfectly aged condition

presumed to be ivory

even with the most straight forward of forms

1911 Schoolgirl Graphite Portrait of Soulful Looking Woman in Big Hat braided grass basket and one printed eye lostTo my eye just a wonderful naive drawing by an unknown 12 year old in 1911 great and interesting face, great hat, charming details. The drawing was done on a writing paper(almost like a tracing paper) that appears to be watermarked and was mounted to light weight board threaded with a red ribbon at top, which suggests it was once part of a ribbon bound group of them. As mounted: 12 1 4" x 8". Drawing itself: 10 1 2" x 8 1 16". Card shows a fold to