Despairing Woman and Steeples with Tiny People, Double Sided Graphite Drawing 18 Naef blocks 3 7/8" across at handle

3 7/8" across at handle

as to me the painted houses on it remind me very much of early German Erzgebirge ones

brass shoe and boot silhouettes of this ilk were a Victorian era thing in Great Britain

I'm guessing this was taken about c

The rowers do still move forward and backward when pushed but might once have had a greater and more fluid range of movement than they do now

Despairing Woman and Steeples with Tiny People, Double Sided Graphite Drawing 18 Naef blocks 3 7/8" across at handleHard to decide between the two sides of this drawing, which clearly came out of a c. late 19th c. sketchbook corresponding to a series of drawing lessons. I love the very despairing, open mouthed expression on this classically inspired woman, looking as if wailing (as so feeling especially apt for the moment!) but then these three steeples, animated (I have to think at the whim of the draw er, bored with following instructions) with wonderful tiny