Sweet Naive 1880s Graphite Drawing of Hillside Village - 2 of 2 plates and they are quite fine

and they are quite fine little things

it is made mosaic-style of slag glass (sourced from KC’s Monarch Glass) pressed into concrete

shaped like a bird and originally intended as a salt dish I believe

there has been some deterioration to the bronze: on the front

Sweet Naive 1880s Graphite Drawing of Hillside Village - 2 of 2 plates and they are quite fineI'm really smitten with this sweet little "naive" pencil drawing of a hillside village, one of two in the shop that came from a larger collection of drawings executed by the artist on a Grand Tour encompassing Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Norway. I love everything about it, especially the way the various structures are spaced out and snuggled together, with that great drop downhill at the far right It was done in the 1880s, about the same time that