19th C. Naive Double-Sided Drawing: Girl and Flower, Farm with Turtle rite of passage Too pretty to resist

Too pretty to resist

I've found a few others sets of stand-up animals and circus performers dating to the early 20th century

which the harness maker would press with their foot to clamp the jaws of the vise onto the piece of leather

12 1/4" x 12 1/4" x 1 1/2"

The hand thrown vase is signed at the bottom

19th C. Naive Double-Sided Drawing: Girl and Flower, Farm with Turtle rite of passage Too pretty to resistOne last one from a number of drawings I've list by the same (surely quite young) maker, 1870s or so I believe, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. This is one of my favorites, especially for the rosy cheeked girl below the painted and crayoned flower on one side, but also for what looks to me like a turtle crawling along at the bottom left corner on the reverse side. 7 3 4" x 5 1