(Freehand) Line and Form: 1880s Pennsylvania German Ink Drawing of Cabin with Conical Roof and Perfect Picket Fence varaha and the pale wheat color

and the pale wheat color of most of it

sapphire blue velvet just above the ferrule

I love the silhouette and interplay of parts on this one

more than any other sort of photographs

which I have not identified

(Freehand) Line and Form: 1880s Pennsylvania German Ink Drawing of Cabin with Conical Roof and Perfect Picket Fence varaha and the pale wheat colorI know this ink drawing dates to right around 1880, and came from a ledger held by a young Burt Gemberling of Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA who also drew the portrait of the Native American chief listed today. I love a painstakingly rendered portrait of an architectural structure in this manner, attention given to every beam and, best of all here, to each post of the picket fence to either side. Looking closely, none of the very straight looking