Sarah Dechant's 1882 Drawing Notebook, Catawissa, Pennsylvania handmade chair even better with this garland-like

even better with this garland-like bonnet over her yellow hair

I've done a bit of searching but can't find another like it--I assume it would have been positioned on a wall inside an office building or hotel (or somewhere large enough to have three front and three side doors)

Signed on reverse by S

I just think these old fishing floats are such beautiful objects--as forms

which feel more like sculptures or tabletop architectures than little carvings

Sarah Dechant's 1882 Drawing Notebook, Catawissa, Pennsylvania handmade chair even better with this garland-likeDated 1882, this was the drawing notebook of a Sarah Dechant of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in which she executed 22 drawings that I presume were part of course in learning the basics of line, shading, perspective, etc. And quite a nice job she did all done in graphite, the drawings are crisp and precise and many of them quite graphically satisfying things, which it would be easy to cut from the hard covered sketchbook to frame perfect for hanging in a