Horse and Jockey, 19th C. Ink Drawing on Watermarked Lined Paper, Fred Scruton, Beverly MA beautiful antique copper vesta It is a curious one

It is a curious one though

Introduction + 83 pages of prints + endpapers

written in pencil—at least one of them by EW Hall him or herself

as do significant amounts of the red paint on the sides

Horse and Jockey, 19th C. Ink Drawing on Watermarked Lined Paper, Fred Scruton, Beverly MA beautiful antique copper vesta It is a curious oneI went to Cohoes, NY to find this one, but it originated in my neck of the woods, on the North Shore of Boston, in Beverly NY. Reminds me in many ways of Spencerian calligraphic drawings, but folkier, and I especially love the handling of the jockey's face, with all those tiny ink dots making it look almost as if he were wearing a mask or that much of his face were covered in stubble, which lends a bit of eeriness to the drawing in an interesting sort